A gentle bend, such as in a road.
You should slow down when approaching a curve.
A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
She scribbled a curve on the paper.
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.
The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve.
A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
A one-dimensional continuum.
(usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
To bend; to crook.
to curve a line
To cause to swerve from a straight course.
to curve a ball in pitching it
To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
the road curves to the right
To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
The teacher will curve the test.
To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
I was once curved three times by the same woman.
Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
a curve line