After taking gold in the halfpipe snowboarding event in each of the past two Olympics, American star Shaun White was in line to add some additional hardware to his trophy case with a medal in the new slopestyle event in Sochi...
Any point of an oval belongs to an arc with a constant radius (shorter or longer), but in an ellipse, the radius is continuously changing. In common speech. In common speech, oval means a shape rather like an egg or an ellipse, which may be two-dimensional or three-dimensional.
The astrological symbol of the sun is a circle with a dot in the middle. The same symbol is often used to represent gold, which is strongly associated with the sun. The element of spirit, seen as an element equal or superior to the physical elements of fire, air, water and earth, is commonly represented by a circle.ircles commonly represent unity, wholeness, and infinity. Without beginning or end, without sides or corners, the circle is also associated with the number one. In some cases, there is a distinction between that which is contained within the circle and that which lies without.