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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kur-vuh-cher, -choo r |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɜr və tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər |
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Définition of curvature
Origin :- 1660s, from Latin curvatura "a bending," from curvatus, past participle of curvare "to bend" (see curve (v.)). In non-Euclidian geometry, from 1873.
- noun rounded part of thing, usually body part
- What curvature is to lines, gradation is to shades and colors.
- Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume II (of V) » by John Ruskin
- I might just as well have suspected the girl of a curvature of the spine.
- Extract from : « Falk » by Joseph Conrad
- Slight inequality of curvature in meridians of right cornea.
- Extract from : « A Book of Burlesques » by H. L. Mencken
- The place had a curvature like that of the seats in a theatre.
- Extract from : « Ten Books on Architecture » by Vitruvius
- Curvature of the spine is more common than is usually thought.
- Extract from : « The Mother and Her Child » by William S. Sadler
- On the other hand, the curvature of the seas is a no less certain proof.
- Extract from : « Astronomy for Amateurs » by Camille Flammarion
- He adds that what curvature is to lines, so is gradation to shades and colours.
- Extract from : « Literary Celebrities of the English Lake-District » by Frederick Sessions
- The points at which the curvature vanishes are “points of inflection.”
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 5 » by Various
- It is seen that the curvature is greatly increased (Fig. 114).
- Extract from : « Life Movements in Plants, Volume II, 1919 » by Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose
- This center is called the center of curvature, while the radius of the sphere R, is the radius of curvature.
- Extract from : « Physics » by Willis Eugene Tower
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