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A gentle bend, such as in a road.
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You should slow down when approaching a curve.
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A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
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She scribbled a curve on the paper.
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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.
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The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve.
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A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
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A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
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An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
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A one-dimensional continuum.
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(usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.