Definitionen
1.AdjectiveBent without angles; crooked; curved."a curve line; a curve surface"
2.NounA gentle bend, such as in a road."You should slow down when approaching a curve."
3.NounA simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line."She scribbled a curve on the paper."
4.NounA grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject."The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve."
5.NounA grading system where all raw scores are raised by a set amount of points.
6.NounA continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
7.NounA one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
8.NounAn algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
9.NounA one-dimensional continuum.
10.NounThe attractive shape of a woman's body.
11.VerbTo bend; to crook."to curve a line; to curve a pipe"
12.VerbTo cause to swerve from a straight course."to curve a ball in pitching it"
13.VerbTo bend or turn gradually from a given direction."the road curves to the right"
14.VerbTo grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution)."The teacher will curve the test."
15.VerbTo reject, to turn down romantic advances."I was once curved three times by the same woman."