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What does curve mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word curve? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
Noun
  1. A gentle bend, such as in a road.
  2. A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
  3. A 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.
  4. (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
  5. (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
  6. (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
  7. (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
  8. (plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To bend; to crook.
  2. (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
  3. (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
  4. To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
  5. (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances
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