curve
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
topology
Etymology: Attested since the 1690s, from Latin curvus (“bent, curved”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”) + *-wós. Doublet of curb, shrink, carcer, and cancer.
Inflected forms:
form: curves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cuhve
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: curves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: curving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: curved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: curved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cuhve
pos: verb
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: A gentle bend, such as in a road.
pos: noun
examples: You should slow down when approaching a curve.
But when we reflect that across the road at the centre of the arc of each curve there was a barricade, and cannon placed to rake the' intervals between the different barricades, the difficulties of the ascent, which is very steep, would be increased even to insurmountability.
In appearance, the bharal resembles both a sheep and a goat. Its horns are smooth, rounded and form a curve backwards over the neck. The fur is brownish grey in colour which attains a slaty grey hue in winter and becomes browner in summer. In Kumaun the bharal is found in the desolate tracts of northern Pithoragarh, usually on the slopes of the main Himalayan range where it lives between the timberline and the snowline.
AROUND six years ago, Hyundai figured a 10-year warranty was not enough to attract shoppers and conjured up daring design for more attention. Sonata was the first to get the Fluidic Sculpture makeover, but the fifth-generation Elantra ended up being the swoopiest of the fleet. Hyundai’s newest gamble? Toning down those curves. […] Laugh at that detail now — you won’t when the sun is blinding you at 75 miles an hour on a curve.
gloss: A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
pos: noun
examples: She scribbled a curve on the paper.
However, it should be possible to give more sophisticated spherical spline curves based on the de Castaljau method that are computed using multiple slerps between pairs of points and which work well for arbitrary knot positions (indeed, knot insertion methods for spline curves should suffice for this, cf Farin [1993])
gloss: A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
pos: noun
examples: The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve.
gloss: A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
nonstandard
gloss: A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
pos: noun
tags: analytic
gloss: A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
pos: noun
gloss: An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
pos: noun
gloss: A one-dimensional continuum.
pos: noun
gloss: The attractive shape of a woman's body.
pos: noun
tags: informal
plural-normally
gloss: To bend; to crook.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to curve a line
to curve a pipe
gloss: To cause to swerve from a straight course.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to curve a ball in pitching it
gloss: To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: the road curves to the right
[…] the shoulders not too wide above, bowing outward from the top to the breast; the back flat from shoulder to tail; the ribs extending horizontally and backwards, and then curving down barrelwise; […]
The double-track branch curves away southwards at the south end of the station and runs on a banked down gradient gradually losing sight of the main line.
Even without mobilization of the bone, the median eyelid angle can be deplaced in the nasal direction. For this purpose, we inserted a heart-shaped cartilage implant, curved toward the caruncula.
gloss: To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The teacher will curve the test.
gloss: To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: I was once curved three times by the same woman.
Derived words: above the curve
aerocurve
ahead of the curve
algebraic curve
Allen curve
bathtub curve
battleship curve
battleship-shaped curve
bean curve
behind the curve
bell curve
bell curve god
Bethe-Slater curve
Beveridge curve
Bézier curve
blancmange curve
blind curve
caustic curve
closed curve
closed timelike curve
cocked hat curve
compound curve
concentration-time curve
contract curve
cosine curve
counter curve
countercurve
cubic curve
curvaceous
curveball
curve-billed thrasher
curve-billed tinamou
curve deficiency
curve flattening
curveless
curvelet
curve of pursuit
curvesome
curvilinear
curvimeter
curvy
deltoid curve
demand curve
de Rham curve
distribution curve
dragon curve
duck curve
dumbbell curve
Edwards curve
eigencurve
elliptic curve
elliptic-curve cryptography
Engel curve
epicurve
epi curve
epidemic curve
epidemiological curve
equidistant curve
fatten the curve
Fermat curve
flatten the curve
foliate curve
French curve
Frey curve
Gaussian curve
Gompertz curve
Gosper curve
Great Gatsby curve
hairpin curve
Harnack's curve theorem
Hellings and Downs curve
Hellings-Downs curve
Hilbert curve
hockey stick curve
horseshoe curve
Hubbert curve
incurve
indifference curve
isocurve
J-curve
J curve
Jordan curve
Jordan curve theorem
Keeling curve
knucklecurve
Kuznets curve
Laffer curve
Lamé curve
learning curve
lightcurve
light curve
Lissajous curve
logistic curve
logocyclic curve
Lorenz curve
L-shaped curve
multicurve
nonsimple curve
offer curve
open curve
outcurve
Page curve
Pareto curve
Peano curve
pedal curve
Phillips curve
plane curve
production possibility curve
pursuit curve
radial curve
Rahn curve
recurve
reverse curve
rose curve
rotation curve
sail curve
S-curve
Sierpinski curve
simple curve
sine curve
single curve
skew curve
slurve
snowflake curve
space curve
spacefilling curve
space-filling curve
spherical curve
subcurve
supply curve
Takagi curve
tautochrone curve
throw a curve
throw someone a curve
time curve
traveltime curve
tricuspoid curve
undercurve
upcurve
velocity curve
yield curve
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