curve
曲线,弧度,曲线图,弯道
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Definitions
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- : a continuously bending line, without angles.
- : the act or extent of curving.
- : any curved outline, form, thing, or part.
- : a curved section of a road, path, hallway, etc.
- : Railroads. a curved section of track: in the U.S. the curve is often expressed as the central angle, measured in degrees, of a curved section of track subtended by a chord 100 feet long .
- : Baseball. curveball. the path followed by a ball pitched as a curveball: The curve on that ball was nasty!
- : a graphic representation of the variations effected in something by the influence of changing conditions; graph.
- : Mathematics. a collection of points whose coordinates are continuous functions of a single independent variable.
- : a misleading or deceptive trick; cheat; deception.
- : Education. a grading system based on the scale of performance, so that those performing better relative to others in the group, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject, receive high grades: The new English professor grades on a curve.Compare absolute.
- : a curved guide used in drafting.
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Examples
Given where he falls on aging curves, his prospect pedigree and the success of sons of former major leaguers,16 there are many indicators that suggest Tatís will have staying power as one of the game’s top players.
There are 11 rows of seats curving around the balcony where you like to sit.
Ever since Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity recast gravity as curves in space-time, physicists have wondered if his work was the final word.
From 2007 to 2019, left-handers registered a substantially lower velocity for every type of pitch tracked, including not only higher-velocity pitches like fastballs and sinkers, but also sliders, changeups and curves.
The best light for the pigments to absorb, then, was in the steepest parts of the intensity curve for the solar spectrum — the red and blue parts of the spectrum.
She and her sister went into business together in 1997, opening Curve Salon after a career in media.
Instead, break out a form-fitting garment — think skinny jeans or a curve-hugging dress.
In an airline seat, the hips and pelvis rotate forward and the S curve flattens.
After acknowledging that there has been a “bend in the curve” and a reason to hope, he warned against inaction.
“He also said, ‘We might be too ahead of the curve,’” Kudrow remembers.
He drew her back to him, and she yielded and settled closely in the curve of his arm, and he told her the story.