Definition of curve

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Curve (a.) A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal..

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Recurvate :: Recurvate (v. t.) To bend or curve back; to recurve.
Lemniscate :: Lemniscate (n.) A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center..
Horn :: Horn (n.) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
Sweep :: Sweep (n.) The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of a circle.
Ruler :: Ruler (n.) A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding a pen or pencil in drawing lines. Cf. Rule, n., 7 (a)..
Curved :: Curved (imp. & p. p.) of Curv.
Serpette :: Serpette (n.) A pruning knife with a curved blade.
Polar :: Polar (n.) The right line drawn through the two points of contact of the two tangents drawn from a given point to a given conic section. The given point is called the pole of the line. If the given point lies within the curve so that the two tangents become imaginary, there is still a real polar line which does not meet the curve, but which possesses other properties of the polar. Thus the focus and directrix are pole and polar. There are also poles and polar curves to curves of higher degree th
Breve :: Breve (n.) A curved mark [/] used commonly to indicate the short quantity of a vowel.
Falchion :: Falchion (n.) A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; -- used in the Middle Ages..
Horn :: Horn (n.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias)..
Intercept :: Intercept (n.) A part cut off or intercepted, as a portion of a line included between two points, or cut off two straight lines or curves..
Loof :: Loof (n.) The part of a ship's side where the planking begins to curve toward bow and stern.
Streptoneura :: Streptococcus (n.) A long or short chain of micrococci, more or less curved..
Cardioid :: Cardioid (n.) An algebraic curve, so called from its resemblance to a heart..
Dinotherium :: Dinotherium (n.) A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
Spokesmen :: Spokeshave (n.) A kind of drawing knife or planing tool for dressing the spokes of wheels, the shells of blocks, and other curved work..
Incurve :: Incurve (v. t.) To bend; to curve; to make crooked.
Calcar :: Calcar (n.) A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot..
Level :: Level (n.) A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface of still water; -- this is the true level, and is a curve or surface in which all points are equally distant from the center of the earth, or rather would be so if the earth were an exact sphere..
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