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curvature

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Noun

HYPHEN

cur=va=ture

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun curvature has 3 senses

curvature(n = noun.state) - (medicine) a curving or bending; often abnormal; "curvature of the spine"

is a kind of

condition

status

Derived forms verb curve₄, verb curve₃

curvature(n = noun.attribute) - the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve;

differential coefficient

first derivative

curvature(n = noun.attribute) curve - the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface;

is a kind of configuration, conformation, contour, form, shape

has particulars: curliness, waviness, straightness

Derived form verb curve₃

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CIDE DICTIONARY

curvature, n. [L. curvatura. See Curvate.].

The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve. Cowper. [1913 Webster]
"The elegant curvature of their fronds." [1913 Webster]
The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. [1913 Webster]

Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a circular form. -- Absolute curvature. See under Absolute. -- Angle of curvature (Geom.), one that expresses the amount of curvature of a curve. -- Chord of curvature. See under Chord. -- Circle of curvature. See Osculating circle of a curve, under Circle. -- Curvature of the spine (Med.), an abnormal curving of the spine, especially in a lateral direction. -- Radius of curvature, the radius of the circle of curvature, or osculatory circle, at any point of a curve.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

curvature, n.
1 the act or state of curving.
2 a curved form.
3 Geom. a the deviation of a curve from a straight line, or of a curved surface from a plane. b the quantity expressing this.

Etymology

OF f. L curvatura (as CURVE)

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curvature

Curvature

N curvature, curvity, curvation, incurvature, incurvity, incurvation, bend, flexure, flexion, flection, conflexure, crook, hook, bought, bending, deflection, deflexion, inflection, inflexion, concameration, arcuation, devexity, turn, deviation, detour, sweep, curl, curling, bough, recurvity, recurvation, sinuosity, kink, carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule, horseshoe, loop, crane neck, parabola, hyperbola, helix, spiral, catenary, festoon, conchoid, cardioid, caustic, tracery, arched ceiling, arched roof, bay window, bow window, sine curve, spline, spline curve, spline function, obliquity, curved, curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear, devex, devious, recurved, recurvous, crump, bowed, vaulted, hooked, falciform, falcated, semicircular, crescentic, sinusoid, parabolic, paraboloid, luniform, lunular, semilunar, conchoidal, helical, double helical, spiral, kinky, cordiform, cordated, cardioid, heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped, kidney-shaped, reniform, lentiform, lenticular, bow-legged, oblique, circular, aduncated, arclike, arcuate, arched, beaked, bicorn, bicornuous, bicornute, clypeate, clypeiform, cymbiform, embowed, galeiform, hamate, hamiform, hamous, hooked, linguiform, lingulate, lobiform, lunate, navicular, peltate, remiform, rhamphoid, rostrate, rostriferous, rostroid, scutate, scaphoid, uncate, unguiculate, unguiform.

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