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Arch :: Arch (n.) Any curvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the aorta..

Level :: Level (a.) Even; flat; having no part higher than another; having, or conforming to, the curvature which belongs to the undisturbed liquid parts of the earth's surface; as, a level field; level ground; the level surface of a pond or lake..

Fair :: Fair (superl.) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; fowing; -- said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines..

Curvature :: Curvature (n.) 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..

Plane :: Plane (a.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature..

Chordee :: Chordee (n.) A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea..

Osculate :: Osculate (v. t.) To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2..

Crook :: Crook (n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure..

Pott''s Disease :: Pott's disease () Caries of the vertebrae, frequently resulting in curvature of the spine and paralysis of the lower extremities; -- so named from Percival Pott, an English surgeon..

Geodesy :: Geodesy (n.) That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portions of the earth's surface, or the general figure and dimenshions of the earth; or that branch of surveying in which the curvature of the earth is taken into account, as in the surveys of States, or of long lines of coast..

Sheer :: Sheer (n.) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side..

Incurvation :: Incurvation (n.) The state of being bent or curved; curvature.

Ophthalmometer :: Ophthalmometer (n.) An instrument devised by Helmholtz for measuring the size of a reflected image on the convex surface of the cornea and lens of the eye, by which their curvature can be ascertained..

Umbilicus :: Umbilicus (n.) A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other. A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus. Called also umbilic.

Aduncity :: Aduncity (n.) Curvature inwards; hookedness.

Spherometer :: Spherometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc..

Lordosis :: Lordosis (n.) Any abnormal curvature of the bones.

Aplanatic :: Aplanatic (a.) Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens..

Crook :: Crook (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

Chicken-breasted :: Chicken-breasted (a.) Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column..

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