curve
IPA: kˈɝv
noun
- A gentle bend, such as in a road.
- A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
- 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.
- (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
- (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
- (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
- (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
- (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
verb
- (transitive) To bend; to crook.
- (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
- (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
- (transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
- (transitive) (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
adjective
- (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
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Examples of "curve" in Sentences
- It is curved and indistinct.
- The shape of the curves are identical.
- Moreover, the shape of the curve varies.
- The grey lines are the model of the Gaussian curve.
- At the deepest point of the cutting the line curves sharply.
- It starts with a flat line, which curves into an undulation.
- I can't see the three curved blue lines or the sallow leaves.
- Intuitively it is the union of the tangent lines to the space curve.
- The tension in the fabric may also distort the rectilinear lines into curves.
- The slope of a line tangent to the curve at the point is the marginal function.