Word Finder - curve

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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.

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To bend; to crook.

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to curve a line

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To cause to swerve from a straight course.

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to curve a ball in pitching it

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To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.

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the road curves to the right

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To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).

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The teacher will curve the test.

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To reject, to turn down romantic advances.

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I was once curved three times by the same woman.

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Bent without angles; crooked; curved.

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a curve line

The sharp curve arrived before her memory of it.

His finger left her jaw and softly followed the curve of her neck.

The black dress she wore fit her like a second skin, outlining every curve, dip and nook of her body.

This curve with the values reduced from metres to feet is reproduced below.

His lips followed, softly pressing against the curve of her neck.

It was still light enough to see across the gorge when an opening in the trees allowed, but the long swing to the far end of valley was away from the direction the vehicle had driven and blocked from sight by the curve of the canyon.

The first curve frightened the hell out of him and he knew the brake pres­sure necessary to slow him from this speed could not be engaged all the way down the mountain without overheating the tiny pads to the point of ineffectiveness.

The amount of superelevation required to prevent derailment at a curve can be calculated under perfect running conditions, given the radius of curvature, the weight of the vehicle, the height of the centre of gravity, the distance between the rails, and the speed; but great experience 1 See The Times Engineering Supplement (August 22, 1906), p. 265.

Dean pulled out of the curve, searching ahead for a glimpse of his quarry as he continued to hug the right side of the narrow road­way.

As she rounded the curve in the staircase, the room became silent.

He began first a short ascent, then a drop to a sharp curve he nearly missed, causing him to reduce his speed further.

If a be greater than b the curve resembles fig.

Go up the hill and watch for cars so you can warn anyone before they get to the curve.

She rounded a curve and slammed on the breaks.

The curve for cobalt is a very remarkable one.

By the device of a hypsographic curve co-ordinating the vertical relief and the areas of the earth's surface occupied by each zone of elevation, according to the system introduced by Supan, 2 Wagner showed his results graphically.

For instance, if the curve is of S-form, the point of danger is when the train enters the contra-flexure, and it is not an easy matter to assign the best superelevation at all points throughout the double bend.

It is also the inverse of the same curve for the same point.

He grabbed the door handle as she spun around a curve.

It flashed, silver glinting off its graceful curve.

This three-peaked curve is not wholly pecuiiar to Paris, being seen, for instance, at Lisbon in summer.

His reputation mainly rests on his Introduzione ad una teoria geometrica delle curve piane, which proclaims him as a follower of the Steinerian or synthetical school of geometricians.

If the asymptotes be perpendicular, or, in other words, the principal axes be equal, the curve is called the rectangular hyperbola.

When a train is running round a curve the centrifugal force which comes into play tends to make its wheel-flanges press against the outer rail, or even to capsize it.

The smoothest and safest running is, in fact, attained when a " transition," " easement " or " adjustment " curve is inserted between the tangent and the point of circular curvature.

The resistance to motion round a curve has not been so systematically studied that any definite rule can be formulated applicable to all classes of rolling stock and all radii of curves.

In this case the centre is a crunode and the curve resembles fig.

In this curve ABCD are nodes.

Hence the moment of the load on Am at C is wy0m, and the moment of a uniform load over any portion of the girder is w X the area of the influence curve Ip' G' E ' under that portion.

This method distorts the curve, so that vertical ordinates of the curve are drawn to a scale b times greater than that of the horizontal ordinates.

The vertical distortion of the curve must not be so great that there is a very sensible difference between the length of the arc and its chord.

The old Austria was very richly provided with raw materials; the coal and iron supply was especially rich; in the years immediately preceding the war the production of these two commodities followed in general a rising curve.

These ideas are further developed in various papers in the Bulletin and in his L'Anthropometrie, ou mesure des differentes facultes de l'homme (18'ji), in which he lays great stress on the universal applicability of the binomial law, - according to which the number of cases in which, for instance, a certain height occurs among a large number of individuals is represented by an ordinate of a curve (the binomial) symmetrically situated with regard to the ordinate representing the mean result (average height).

Thus the path of the ray when the aether is at rest is the curve which makes fds/V least; but when it is in motion it is the curve which makes fds/(V+lug-m y -I-nw) least, where (l,m,n) is the direction vector of Ss.

There will probably be a learning curve in the arrival of wireless USB.

The form of the torque curve, or crank effort curve, as it is sometimes called, is discussed in the article Steam Engine, and the torque curve corresponding to actual indicator diagrams taken from an express passenger engine travelling at a speed of 65 m.

Another of Roberval's discoveries was a very general method of drawing tangents, by considering a curve as described by a moving point whose motion is the resultant of several simpler motions.

It flows east and south in a wide curve, through a broad upper valley past Chippenham and Melksham, after which it turns abruptly west to Bradford-on-Avon, receives the waters of the Frome from the south, and enters the beautiful narrow valley in which lie Bath and Bristol.

The name lemniscate is sometimes given to any crunodal quartic curve having only one real finite branch which is symmetric about the axis.

The centre is a conjugate point (or acnode) and the curve resembles fig.

The instrument can be provided with a curve or table showing the current corresponding to each angular displacement of the torsion head.

If the attraction of a central body is not the only force acting on the moving body, the orbit will deviate from the form of a conic section in a degree depending on the amount of the extraneous force; and the curve described may not be a re-entering curve at all, but one winding around so as to form an indefinite succession of spires.

Let the curve represent an elliptic orbit, AB being the major axis, DE the minor axis, and F the focus in which the centre of attraction is situated, which centre we shall call the sun.

For the subjects under this heading see the articles CONIC SECTIONS; CIRCLE; CURVE; GEOMETRICAL CONTINUITY; GEOMETRY, Axioms of; GEOMETRY, Euclidean; GEOMETRY, Projective; GEOMETRY, Analytical; GEOMETRY, Line; KNOTS, MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF; MENSURATION; MODELS; PROJECTION; Surface; Trigonometry.

The downward course of the curve is, owing to hysteresis, strikingly different from its upward course, and when the magnetizing force has been reduced to zero, there is still remaining an induction of 7500 units.

The effect produced by a current is exactly opposite to that of tension, raising the elongation curve instead of depressing it.

Some experiments were next undertaken with the view of ascertaining how far magnetic changes of length in iron were dependent upon the hardness of the metal, and the unexpected result was arrived at that softening produces the same effect as tensile stress; it depresses the elongation curve, diminishing the maximum extension, and reducing the " critical value " of the magnetizing force.

The experiments were not sufficiently numerous to indicate whether, as is possible, there is a critical degree of hardness for which the height of the elongation curve is a maximum.

Among other things, it was found that the behaviour of cast cobalt was entirely changed by annealing; the sinuous curve shown in Fig.

Ewing's independent experiments showed that the magnetization curve for a cobalt rod under a load of 16.2 kilogrammes per square mm.