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Noun: oven  ú-vun
  1. Kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting
    "She preheated the oven before putting in the turkey"
     
  2. An enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.
    "The industrial oven reached temperatures high enough to melt steel";
    - furnace

Derived forms: ovens

Type of: chamber, kitchen appliance

Encyclopedia: Oven