Definitions for curvature

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curvature cur·va·ture

Spelling: [kur-vuh-cher, -choo r]

IPA: /ˈkɜr və tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər/

Curvature is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 225 anagrams from letters in curvature (acerrtuuv).

Definitions for curvature

noun

1. the act of curving or the state of being curved.
2. a curved condition, often abnormal:
3. the degree of curving of a line or surface.
4. Geometry. (at a point on a curve) the derivative of the inclination of the tangent with respect to arc length. the absolute value of this derivative.
5. something curved.

Origin of curvature

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin curvātūra, equivalent to curvāt(us) past participle of curvāre to bend, curve + -ūra -ure. See Examples for curvature

What curvature is to lines, gradation is to shades and colors.

The place had a curvature like that of the seats in a theatre.

curvature of the spine is more common than is usually thought.

I might just as well have suspected the girl of a curvature of the spine.

Slight inequality of curvature in meridians of right cornea.

He was described by Shakespeare as having a hunchback and indeed the skeleton shows evidence of curvature of the spine.

Even if you put it on a big building, the curvature of the earth prevents radar from going to the airplane.

He adds that what curvature is to lines, so is gradation to shades and colours.

The points at which the curvature vanishes are “points of inflection.”

On the other hand, the curvature of the seas is a no less certain proof.