circumflex vs oval

circumflex

adj
  • Curving around. 

  • Having a circumflex mark. 

noun
  • A diacritical mark (ˆ) placed over a vowel in the orthography or transliteration of many languages to change its pronunciation; while in some other languages over a consonant. 

verb
  • To mark or pronounce with a circumflex. 

oval

adj
  • Having the shape of an oval. 

  • Of or pertaining to an ovum. 

noun
  • A thing having such a shape, such as an arena. 

  • In a projective plane, a set of points such that no three are collinear and there is a unique tangent line at each point. 

  • An elongated round shape resembling an egg or ellipse. 

  • A sports field, typically but not exclusively oval in shape. 

How often have the words circumflex and oval occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )