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Curve   /kərv/   Listen
noun
Curve  n.  
1.
A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
2.
(Geom.) 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.



verb
Curve  v. t.  (past & past part. curved; pres. part. curving)  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  v. i.  To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.



adjective
Curve  adj.  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.






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"Curve" Quotes from Famous Books



... report of a heavy gun, and all eyes turned to a huge shell, making its curve a mile above our heads, reminded us that the artillery had a field-day as we passed Woolwich, and that there was every possibility that this vagrant messenger of destruction, might plump into our midships. The consternation on board grew, as it descended, looking bigger and ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 • Various

... purple metal— Cut in your naked contentment there shows On the curve of your breast one carven ...
— Spectra - A Book of Poetic Experiments • Arthur Ficke

... down the lane, around the curve of the stone wall, red with woodbine, the lane that would meet the stage road to the station. There, just mounting the crown of the hill and about to disappear on the other side, strode a stranger man, big and tall, with a crop of reddish curly hair showing from under his straw hat. A woman ...
— New Chronicles of Rebecca • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... a year ago," said Ralph. "I got a new pair of skates for Christmas, too," he added, as if it had just occurred to him, "'Club House' skates, something new in the market just this season. Just look at the curve of that skate, will you?" he added, lifting a foot for inspection, "and that clamp that you couldn't shake off if you had to! They're guaranteed for a year, too, and if anything gives out, you get a ...
— Christmas Stories And Legends • Various

... being stopped by a sentry at "Dead Man's Curve," because the Boche was shelling the curve that night, and we had to stop until he "laid off," as the sentry told us. Between shells there was a great stillness on the white road that lay like a silver thread under the moonlight. The shattered stone buildings, ...
— Soldier Silhouettes on our Front • William L. Stidger


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