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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..

Bent :: Bent (v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow..

Loxodremism :: Loxodremism (n.) The act or process of tracing a loxodromic curve; the act of moving as if in a loxodromic curve.

Crimper :: Crimper (n.) A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.

Mixtilinear :: Mixtilinear (a.) Containing, or consisting of, lines of different kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve..

Streptoneura :: Streptococcus (n.) A long or short chain of micrococci, more or less curved..

Arc :: Arc (n.) A portion of a curved line; as, the arc of a circle or of an ellipse..

Roach-backed :: Roach-backed (a.) Having a back like that of roach; -- said of a horse whose back a convex instead of a concave curve.

Cirripedia :: Cirripedia (n. pl.) An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa..

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

Cramp :: Cramp (n.) A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape..

Extrados :: Extrados (n.) The exterior curve of an arch; esp., the upper curved face of the whole body of voussoirs. See Intrados..

Halberd :: Halberd (n.) An ancient long-handled weapon, of which the head had a point and several long, sharp edges, curved or straight, and sometimes additional points. The heads were sometimes of very elaborate form..

Sicklewort :: Sicklewort (n.) A plant of the genus Coronilla (C. scorpioides); -- so named from its curved pods.

Pannade :: Pannade (n.) The curvet of a horse.

Curvet :: Curvet (n.) A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once..

#NAME? :: -vetting () of Curve.

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..

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..

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

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