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- Curve - a. - Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
- Curve - a. - A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
- Curve - a. - A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.
- Curve - a. - To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.
- Curve - v. i. - To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.
- Curved - imp. & p. p. - of Curve
- Curvedness - n. - The state of being curved.
- Curvet - n. - A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once.
- Curvet - n. - A prank; a frolic.
- Curvet - n. - To make a curvet; to leap; to bound.
- Curvet - n. - To leap and frisk; to frolic.
- Curvet - v. t. - To cause to curvet.
- Curveted - imp. & p. p. - of Curvet
- Curveting - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Curvet
- Catacaustic - n. - A caustic curve formed by reflection of light.
- Envelop - n. - A curve or surface which is tangent to each member of a system of curves or surfaces, the form and position of the members of the system being allowed to vary according to some continuous law. Thus, any curve is the envelope of its tangents.
- Hodograph - n. - A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces.
- Curve - a. - To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.
- Order - n. - Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the same as the degree of its equation.
- Tautochrone - n. - A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as, an inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a tautochrone.
- Crunode - n. - A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a.
- Catenary - n. - The curve formed by a rope or chain of uniform density and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line.
- Sinusoid - n. - The curve whose ordinates are proportional to the sines of the abscissas, the equation of the curve being y = a sin x. It is also called the curve of sines.
- Branch - n. - One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.
- Focus - n. - A point so related to a conic section and certain straight line called the directrix that the ratio of the distace between any point of the curve and the focus to the distance of the same point from the directrix is constant.
- Sagitta - n. - The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; -- so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string.
- Indicatrix - n. - A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the accidents of curvature of the surface at the point of contact. The curve is similar to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to the tangent plane and indefinitely near it. It is an ellipse when the curvature is synclastic, and an hyperbola when the curvature is anticlastic.
- Quicken - a. - To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced.
- Vibration - n. - A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever.
- Orthogonally - adv. - Perpendicularly; at right angles; as, a curve cuts a set of curves orthogonally.
- Camber - v. i. - To curve upward.
- Tangent - a. - meeting a curve or surface at a point and having at that point the same direction as the curve or surface; -- said of a straight line, curve, or surface; as, a line tangent to a curve; a curve tangent to a surface; tangent surfaces.
- Loop - n. - A curve of any kind in the form of a loop.
- Trochoid - n. - The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids.
- Hogback - n. - An upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally; -- the opposite of camber.
- Epicycloid - n. - A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the convex side of a fixed circle.
- Normal - a. - A straight line or plane drawn from any point of a curve or surface so as to be perpendicular to the curve or surface at that point.
- Asymptote - n. - A line which approaches nearer to some curve than assignable distance, but, though infinitely extended, would never meet it. Asymptotes may be straight lines or curves. A rectilinear asymptote may be conceived as a tangent to the curve at an infinite distance.
- Directrix - n. - A straight line so situated with respect to a conic section that the distance of any point of the curve from it has a constant ratio to the distance of the same point from the focus.
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- H404 אָכַף - 404 אָכַף - אָכַף - - ʼâkaph - aw-kaf' - a primitive root; apparently meaning to curve (as with a burden); to urge; crave. - Verb - heb
- G43 ἀγκάλη - 43 ἀγκάλη - ἈΓΚΆΛΗ - - ankálē - ang-kal'-ay - from (a bend, "ache"); an arm (as curved):--arm. - Noun Feminine - greek
- H1725 דָּהַר - 1725 דָּהַר - דָּהַר - - dâhar - daw-har' - a primitive root; to curvet or move irregularly; pause. - Verb - heb
- H1354 גַב - 1354 גַב - גַב - - gab - gab - from an unused root meaning to hollow or curve; (compare גֵּו and גּוּף); the back (as rounded); by analogy, the top or rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks, etc.; back, body, boss, eminent (higher) place, (eye) brows, nave, ring. - Noun - heb
- H3721 כָּפַף - 3721 כָּפַף - כָּפַף - - kâphaph - kaw-faf' - a primitive root; to curve; bow down (self). - Verb - heb
- G2949 κῦμα - 2949 κῦμα - ΚῦΜΑ - - kŷma - koo'-mah - from (to swell (with young), i.e. bend, curve); a billow (as bursting or toppling):--wave. - Noun Neuter - greek
- H7782 שׁוֹפָר - 7782 שׁוֹפָר - שׁוֹפָר - - shôwphâr - sho-far' - or שֹׁפָר; from שָׁפַר in the original sense of incising; a cornet (as giving a clear sound) or curved horn; cornet, trumpet. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H6760 צָלַע - 6760 צָלַע - צָלַע - - tsâlaʻ - tsaw-lah' - a primitive root; probably to curve; used only as denominative from צֵלָע,; to limp (as if one-sided); halt. - Verb - heb
- H6763 צֵלָע - 6763 צֵלָע - צֵלָע - - tsêlâʻ - tsay-law' - or (feminine) צַלְעָה; from צָלַע; a rib (as curved), literally (of the body) or figuratively (of a door, i.e. leaf); hence, a side, literally (of a person) or figuratively (of an object or the sky, i.e. quarter); architecturally, a (especially floor or ceiling) timber or plank (single or collective, i.e. a flooring); beam, board, chamber, corner, leaf, plank, rib, side (chamber). - Noun Feminine - heb