[ US /ˈkɝvətʃɝ/ ]
[ UK /kˈɜːvət‍ʃɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve
  2. (medicine) a curving or bending; often abnormal
    curvature of the spine
  3. the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface
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How To Use curvature In A Sentence

  • Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
  • A flat arch, also known as jack or straight arch, extends straight across an opening with no curvature, creating a horizontal emphasis.
  • But we can begin first with a volume of fixed curvature, select a fundamental tile, and apply the rules for gluing the edges.
  • If the ventral curvature of tail is real, then that, in concert with its extremely narrow scaupulae, suggests that a more appropriate functional analog would be found in arboreal chameleons.
  • We have made certain that the reason of the splined spindle rapture is fatigue failure, its crack initiation lies in the minimal knuckle curvature radius surface region of the spline dedendum bottom.
  • The value assigned for each cell is the value of Gaussian curvature at the cell centroid.
  • However, further studies showed a significant number of hodographs for left-moving storms exhibiting clockwise curvature below 1 km.
  • Futher reading (click here if you dare) uncovers other obsessions with coulomb forces in nuclear fusion and a notion that space-time curvature sets humans apart as a species. The Queen is my dealer
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  • The inhabitant of two dimensional space could also refine the use of his measurement to make a quantitive determination of curvature.
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