curvature
Collocations
4ADJ.
luminous, natural, sharp, smaller
VERB + CURVATURE
grades, seeing, top
CURVATURE + NOUN
arc, earth, planet, spine, tensor
PREP.
than
Definitions
noun
The shape of something curved.
Constructional costs are kept to a minimum by the admissibility of heavy grades and sharp curvature.
In the first of the movie's many striking images, we share his majestic view from the top, the curvature of the planet and the glow of the horizon brilliantly reflected in his helmet.
The extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space.
A turtle drawing an ellipse would have to turn more per distance traveled to get around its “pointy” sides than to get around its flatter top and bottom. This notion of how “pointy something is,” expressed as the ratio of angle turned to distance traveled, is the intrinsic quantity that mathematicians call curvature.
The extent to which a Riemannian manifold is intrinsically curved.
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Synonyms
noun — the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface
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6Constructional costs are kept to a minimum by the admissibility of heavy grades and sharp curvature.
WiktionaryIn the first of the movie's many striking images, we share his majestic view from the top, the curvature of the planet and the glow of the horizon brilliantly reflected in his helmet.
WiktionaryA turtle drawing an ellipse would have to turn more per distance traveled to get around its “pointy” sides than to get around its flatter top and bottom. This notion of how “pointy something is,” expr
WiktionarySeeing as the curvature is smaller than unity, once the curve leaves the unit circle it will not come back.
Tatoeba · #598840The curvature of the Earth was first photographed in 1931.
Tatoeba · #10538164The backrest should conform to the natural curvature of your spine, and provide adequate lumbar support.
Tatoeba · #12190656