curve

Signification (Anglais)

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. (analytic) 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, plural-normally) The attractive shape of a woman's body.

Adj

Bent without angles; crooked; curved.

Verb

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

Concepts

courbe

courber

virage

se courber

courbé

tournant

courbure

ployer

incurver

arquer

tordre

plier

cintre

s’incurver

cambrure

cintrer

être courbé

galbe

galber

renflement

se cambrer

se tordre

se voûter

être voilé

angle

courbes

arc

🙇

arrondir

bosse

détour

fléchir

lacet

ligne

se pencher

serpenter

🐍

tourner

virer

🐻

voiler

cambrer

Synonymes

bend

crook

turn

twist

arch

arc

warp

curl

curvature

wind

bow

🙇

crookedness

corner

winding

curved

fold

meander

curved line

turning

flex

kink

circle

⭕

hunch

contort

make crooked

bend down

be curved

huddle

trend

convexity

blunt

stoop

flexure

elbow

spin

swerve

veer

sag

loop

➿

sheer

incurve

inflect

bent

double

coil

hump

cut

slew

camber

gibbousness

Traductions

curva

Kurve

curva

curva

curve

καμπύλη

kromme

Krümmung

krümmen

biegen

corba

Bogen

🙇

curvar

Biegung

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kɜːv/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.