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1.nounA gentle bend, such as in a road."You should slow down when approaching a curve."
2.nounA simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line."She scribbled a curve on the paper."
3.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."
4.nounA continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
5.nounA one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
6.nounAn algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
7.nounA one-dimensional continuum.
8.noun(usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
9.verbTo bend; to crook."to curve a line"
10.verbTo cause to swerve from a straight course."to curve a ball in pitching it"
11.verbTo bend or turn gradually from a given direction."the road curves to the right"
12.verbTo grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution)."The teacher will curve the test."
13.verbTo reject, to turn down romantic advances."I was once curved three times by the same woman."
14.adjectiveBent without angles; crooked; curved."a curve line"