curve

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A gentle bend, such as in a road.
2. A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
3. A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
4. A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
5. A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
6. An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
7. A one-dimensional continuum.
8. (informal) The attractive shape of a woman's body.

Adj

Bent without angles; crooked; curved.

Verb

1. To bend; to crook.
2. To cause to swerve from a straight course.
3. To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
4. To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
5. (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.

Sinònims

bend

crook

turn

twist

arch

arc

warp

wind

curvature

curl

bow

🙇

crookedness

corner

winding

curved

fold

curved line

meander

turning

bend down

circle

⭕

kink

make crooked

hunch

contort

huddle

flex

be curved

crumple

bender

bent

blunt

camber

coil

convexity

crooked

cut

double

elbow

flexure

gibbousness

graph

hump

incurve

inflect

loop

➿

sag

sheer

slew

slue

spin

stoop

swerve

trend

veer

wriggle

curve ball

bend in the road

be rebellious

become crooked

breaking ball

curved shape

indent

zigzag line

circumvolution

line

curve chord

chart

💹

notch

parenthesis

restrain

arched

schedule

semicircle

serpentine

be arched

shoelace

shoestring

graphical record

angle

snake

🐍

cut notches

spiral

stanza

stave

be rounded

stretch

surround

sweep

crook back

switchback

thwart

become bent

chart graph schedule

trick

catenary

bulge

turning point

turnover

turns

twiddle

buckle

vault

bend inward

verticil

volute

vortex

bowline

wave

👋

billow

bending

anfractuous

crinkle

curving

worm

🪱

cycloid

diagram

direction

distort

wrest

draw

draw together

like a hook

crank

zigzag

foil

cord

be crooked

grade

be warped

contract

rose curve

compress

inclination

incline

incurvation

bar chart

📊

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/kɜːv/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Attested since the 1690s, from Latin curvus (“bent, curved”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”) + *-wós. Doublet of curb, shrink, carcer, and cancer.