curve
- Adjective. (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
- Noun. A gentle bend, such as in a road.
- Noun. A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
- Noun. (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
- Noun. (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
- Noun. (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
- Noun. (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
- Noun. (''informal, usually in plural'' '''curves''') The attractive shape of a woman's body.
- Verb. (transitive) To bend; to crook.
- Verb. (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
- Verb. (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
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