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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Curve

Curve (curve)
a.(kûrv)
Curve
[L. curvus bent, curved. See Cirb.]
  1. Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.

Curve

Curve (curve)
n.
Curve
  1. A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
  2. A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.

    Axis of a curve. See under Axis. -- Curve of quickest descent. See Brachystochrone. -- Curve tracing (Math.), the process of determining the shape, location, singular points, and other peculiarities of a curve from its equation. -- Plane curve (Geom.), a curve such that when a plane passes through three points of the curve, it passes through all the other points of the curve. Any other curve is called a curve of double curvature, or a twisted curve.

Curve

Curve (curve)
v. t.
Curve
  1. To bend] to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.

Curve

Curve (curve)
v. i.
Curve
  1. To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.












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