Definition of curve

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Curve (a.) A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line..

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Falchion :: Falchion (n.) A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; -- used in the Middle Ages..
Embow :: Embow (v. t.) To bend like a bow; to curve.
Retort :: Retort (v. t.) A vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. It is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works..
Easement :: Easement (n.) A curved member instead of an abrupt change of direction, as in a baseboard, hand rail, etc..
Hook :: Hook (v. i.) To bend; to curve as a hook.
Curvative :: Curvative (a.) Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves.
Orthogonally :: Orthogonally (adv.) Perpendicularly; at right angles; as, a curve cuts a set of curves orthogonally..
Pad :: Pad (n.) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
Graduator :: Graduator (n.) An instrument for dividing any line, right or curve, into small, regular intervals..
Unciform :: Unciform (a.) Having the shape of a hook; being of a curved or hooked from; hooklike.
Streptoneura :: Streptococcus (n.) A long or short chain of micrococci, more or less curved..
Sassabye :: Sassabye (n.) A large African antelope (Alcelaphus lunata), similar to the hartbeest, but having its horns regularly curved..
Latus Rectum :: Latus rectum () The line drawn through a focus of a conic section parallel to the directrix and terminated both ways by the curve. It is the parameter of the principal axis. See Focus, and Parameter..
Diacaustic :: Diacaustic (a.) Pertaining to, or possessing the properties of, a species of caustic curves formed by refraction. See Caustic surface, under Caustic..
Generation :: Generation (n.) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc..
Arch :: Arch (n.) A flat arch is a member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve.
Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
Titubate :: Titubate (v. i.) To rock or roll, as a curved body on a plane..
Hypocycloid :: Hypocycloid (n.) A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the concave side in the fixed circle. Cf. Epicycloid, and Trochoid..
Sinuosity :: Sinuosity (n.) A bend, or a series of bends and turns; a winding, or a series of windings; a wave line; a curve..
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