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(medical) a curving or bending
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curvature
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In mathematics , curvature is any of a number of loosely related concepts in different areas of geometry. Intuitively, curvature is the amount by which a geometric object such as a surface deviates from being a flat plane , or a curve from being straight ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from Latin curvatura "a bending," from curvatus , past participle of curvare "to bend" (see curve (v.)). In non-Euclidian geometry, from 1873.\n
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The shape of something curved. 2 (context mathematics English) The extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space. 3 (context differential geometry English) The extent to which a Riemannian manifold is intrinsically curved.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curvature \Cur"va*ture\ (k?r"v?-t?r; 135), n. [L. curvatura. See Curvate .] The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve. --Cowper. ...
Usage examples of curvature.
So, at those times we increase the curvature, by extending sections in the front and backflaps at the back, and slats at the leading edge.
Although only 9 out of 39 radicles were affected, yet the curvature was so distinct in several of them, that there could be no doubt that the tip is sensitive to slight contact, and that the growing part bends away from the touching object.
The curvature often amounts to a rectangle,--that is, the terminal part bends upwards until the tip, which is but little curved, projects almost horizontally.
In the skeletons of the several breeds, the development of the bones of the face in length and breadth and curvature differs enormously.
The curvature of Einsteinian space vibrated like a plucked violin string.
Each face of the diamond was perfectly Euclidean, but the six sharp points were like infinitely concentrated repositories of curvature.
Here, the curvature had been tailored on the spot, woven directly into the graphs by the choice of vendeks.
See the two little legs, the U shape between the curvature into this headlike protrusion?
In young males, the horns at first resemble in direction and slight curvature those of the female, but they are always thicker at the base and distinctly triangular.
Ultimately not a trace of the former curvature is left, except in the case of the leaflike cotyledons of the onion.
Finally the moldboard plow was created which completely overturns the soil because of its increased curvature.
Therefore Fig. 15 represents fairly well the movements of the cotyledons alone, with the exception of the one great afternoon curvature to the left.
He was distracted from this interlude of austere self-veneration by the awareness that the sheet of paper on which he was calculating was not perfectly flat, containing many distortions in the form of furrows and grooves, meager ravines, curvature rampant from point to point.
The curvature of the radicle sometimes occurs within from 6 to 8 hours after the tip has been irritated, and almost always within 24 h.
The peduncles can change the direction of their curvature, for if a pot, with plants having their peduncles already bowed downwards, be placed horizontally, they slowly bend at right angles to their former direction towards the centre of the earth.