curve.
Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
Meaning & usage
Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
a curve line
a curve surface
Where this word comes from
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.
A bend, such as in a road.
You should slow down when approaching a curve.
A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
She scribbled a curve on the paper.
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.
The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve.
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. A grading system where all raw scores are raised by a set number of points.
A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
A one-dimensional continuum.
The attractive shape of a woman's body.
Where this word comes from
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.
To bend; to crook.
to curve a line
to curve a pipe
To cause to swerve from a straight course.
to curve a ball in pitching it
To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
the road curves to the right
To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
The teacher will curve the test.
To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
I was once curved three times by the same woman.
Where this word comes from
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.
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