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Twisted curve

Twisted \Twist"ed\, a. Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted.

Twisted curve (Geom.), a curve of double curvature. See Plane curve, under Curve.

Twisted surface (Geom.), a surface described by a straight line moving according to any law whatever, yet so that the consecutive positions of the line shall not be in one plane; a warped surface.

Usage examples of "twisted curve".

From a safe vantage point--behind a twisted curve of durasteel that had once been part of the Great Door--Nom Anor watched with appalled fascination.

They fled from him, fled and scattered ahead and behind, and Barkovitch went on screaming and gobbling and clawing and walking, his feral face turned up to the sky, his mouth a twisted curve of darkness.

She realized she was gripping her pouch in her fingers, running her thumb along the twisted curve of the stone ring inside.