Meaning of curve | Babel Free

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1. A gentle bend, such as in a road.
2. Bent without angles; crooked; curved
3. A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
4. A gentle bend, such as in a road
5. To move in or take the shape of a curve: The path curves around the lake.
6. 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.
7. A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line
8. Something bent:bend, bow, crook, curvature, round, turn.
9. A grading system where all raw scores are raised by a set amount of points.
   broadly, nonstandard
10. 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
11. to bend in a curve. The road curves east. draai يَنْحَني извивам (се) fazer uma curva (s)točit se, ohnout (se) sich krümmen svinge; krumme; gå i en bue στρίβωtorcerse, hacer curva kaarduma دور زدن kaartaa tourner לְעָקֵל वक्र के आकार में झुकाना या झुकना zavinuti kanyarodik membelok beygja, sveigja curvare 曲がる 커브를 이루다 daryti lankstą, lanką, vingiuoti izliekt; izliekties; izlocīties melengkung buigensvinge, bue/bøye/krumme seg zakręcać لری وارول fazer uma curva a face o curbă; a se curba изгиба...
12. A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
    analytic
13. A grading system where all raw scores are raised by a set amount of points
14. a curved blade. gedraaide مُقَوَّس крив curvo zkroucený, zakřivený gekrümmt krum; buet; kurvet κυρτόςcurvo, encorvado kaardus قوس دار kaareva courbéמעוקל टेढ़ा zavinut görbe melengkung bogadreginn, sveigður curvo 曲線状の 구브러진 (iš)lenktas izliekts lengkung gekromdbuet, bueformet, krumzakrzywiony قوس لرونکی curvo curbat изогнутый skrútený ukrivljen iskrivljen böjd, krökt, svängd ซึ่งโค้ง eğri 彎曲的 зігнутий; вигнутий جهكا هوا، منحنى được uốn cong 弯曲的
15. A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
16. draaierig مُنْحَـنِ извит curvado křivý, klikatý gebogen velskabt; veldrejet καμπυλόγραμμος curvo, sinuoso käänuline دارای انحنا kaarteinen courbe, sinueux עָקַלתוֹן वक्रयुक्त zavojit görbén melengkung bugðóttur curvo 曲がった 굽은 vingiuotas, gražios figūros līkumains lengkung gekromd, welgevormdsvinget; velskapt zaokrąglony د انحناء لرونکی curvado sinuos кривой krivý, kľukatý ukrivljen kriv kurvig ที่มีลักษณะโค้ง eğri 曲線形的 фігуристий (про дівчину) جهكن‍ے والا، م‍ڑن‍ے والا bị uốn cong 曲线形的
17. An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
18. A line that deviates from straightness in a smooth, continuous fashion.
19. A one-dimensional continuum.
20. A relatively smooth bend in a road or other course.
21. The attractive shape of a woman's body.
    informal, plural-normally
22. A line representing data on a graph.
23. A graphic representation showing the relative performance of individuals as measured against each other, used especially as a method of grading students in which the assignment of grades is based on predetermined proportions of students.
24. Mathematics a. The graph of a function on a coordinate plane.
    Mathematics

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Examples

“You should slow down when approaching a curve.”

“But when we reflect that across the road at the centre of the arc of each curve there was a barricade, and cannon placed to rake the' intervals between the different barricades, the difficulties of the ascent, which is very steep, would be increased even to insurmountability.”

“In appearance, the bharal resembles both a sheep and a goat. Its horns are smooth, rounded and form a curve backwards over the neck. The fur is brownish grey in colour which attains a slaty grey hue in winter and becomes browner in summer. In Kumaun the bharal is found in the desolate tracts of northern Pithoragarh, usually on the slopes of the main Himalayan range where it lives between the timberline and the snowline.”

“She scribbled a curve on the paper.”

“However, it should be possible to give more sophisticated spherical spline curves based on the de Castaljau method that are computed using multiple slerps between pairs of points and which work well for arbitrary knot positions (indeed, knot insertion methods for spline curves should suffice for this, cf Farin [1993])”

“The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve.”

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