curve
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curve
- /kɜːv/ Australia, UK
- [ˈkʰɜːv] Australia, UK
- /kɚv/ US
- [ˈkʰɚv] US
Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)v
Where it comes from
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.
adjective cuhve
- Bent without angles; crooked; curved. a curve line
noun curves · cuhve
- A bend, such as in a road. You should slow down when approaching a curve.
- A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line. She scribbled a curve on the paper.
- 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. The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve.
- A grading system where all raw scores are raised by a set number of points.
- A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
- A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
- An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
- A one-dimensional continuum.
- The attractive shape of a woman's body.
verb curves · curving · curved · cuhve
- To bend; to crook. to curve a line
- To cause to swerve from a straight course. to curve a ball in pitching it
- To bend or turn gradually from a given direction. the road curves to the right
- To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution). The teacher will curve the test.
- To reject, to turn down romantic advances. I was once curved three times by the same woman.
