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S curve or S-curve can refer to:
- S Curve (art), an art term for a sinuous body position, noted in ancient marble sculpture
- S-Curve Records, a record label
- Sigmoid curve or sigmoid function, a mathematical function that produces a sigmoid, or "S"-shaped, curve
- S curve or reverse curve, in civil engineering, a section of the horizontal alignment of a highway or railroad route in which a curve to the left or right is followed immediately by a curve in the opposite direction
- S-curve, the shape of the logistic function used to illustrate the diffusion of innovations in the technology life cycle
The S Curve is a traditional art concept in Ancient Greek sculpture and Roman sculpture where the figure's body and posture is depicted like a sinuous or serpentine " S". It is related to and is an extension of the art term of contrapposto which is when a figure is depicted slouching or placing one's weight and thus center of gravity to one side. However, the S Curve involves more of the body than the contrapposto, and is therefore considered to be a more advanced technical development. The "S Curve" concept was initiated by famous Greek sculptor Praxiteles, son of Kifissodotos.
Image:Wenuszmf.jpg|The Venus de Milo depicts a S Curve body shape Image:009MA Kritios.jpg|Note that there is only a slight weight shift in the Kritios Boy; thus, it is a contrapposto.
Usage examples of "s curve".
Once it was set up, Boba Fett could override the computer's evasion program and turn the underside of the craft toward the source of the laser-cannon bolts, so the inert metal would act as a shield for the cockpit's curve of transparisteel.
For five years now, Jemmy and his siblings and all of the Warkan children had trooped three houses around the Road's curve to use the Hann computer.
Far away across vast Saturn's curve, a roiling mushroom cloud of methane sucked up from the frigid depths of the gas giant's troposphere heads toward the stars.
The Akk Guards abandoned their expended torpedo launchers and slid down the shell's curve to leap from its rim.
The span of his brow held all the grace of the moon's curve rising above the sea's horizon.
Ribbons of red and blue danced in the sky along the Rim's curve, the collision of realities mimicking the borealis effect.
I made sure I was a little east of the keel, so my bubbles skimmed off to the right, following the ship's curve, and came out on the unwatched side.
Jaina abandoned her quarry and broke left, then right, an S curve that she hoped would let her line up on the coralskipper that was hunting Vale.
In the faint upcast light of the courtyard lamps, he saw her in parts a cheek's curve, her lips sharp as a carving.
In the faint upcast light of the courtyard lamps, he saw her in parts - a cheek's curve, her lips sharp as a carving.