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Curvity :: Curvity (n.) The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.

Nebuly :: Nebuly (n.) A line or a direction composed of successive short curves or waves supposed to resembe a cloud. See NEbul.

Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

Spiral :: Spiral (a.) A plane curve, not reentrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole. Cf. Helix..

Anacrotism :: Anacrotism (n.) A secondary notch in the pulse curve, obtained in a sphygmographic tracing..

Brachystochrone :: Brachystochrone (n.) A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid..

Diameter :: Diameter (n.) Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve..

Bandy :: Bandy (a.) Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg..

Gouge :: Gouge (n.) A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve..

Helix :: Helix (n.) A nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally inclined to a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the convolutions of which are in the plane..

Elbow :: Elbow (n.) The joint or bend of the arm; the outer curve in the middle of the arm when bent.

Worm :: Worm (n.) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still..

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..

Cabriole :: Cabriole (n.) A curvet; a leap. See Capriole.

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..

Crook :: Crook (n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.

Hornbug :: Hornbug (n.) A large nocturnal beetle of the genus Lucanus (as L. capreolus, and L. dama), having long, curved upper jaws, resembling a sickle. The grubs are found in the trunks of old trees..

Rockered :: Rockered (a.) Shaped like a rocker; curved; as, a rockered keel..

Sinuate :: Sinuate (v. i.) To bend or curve in and out; to wind; to turn; to be sinusous.

Skee :: Skee (n.) A long strip of wood, curved upwards in front, used on the foot for sliding..

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