noun. The act of curving or the state of being curved.

noun. undefined

noun. The ratio of the change in the angle of a tangent that moves over a given arc to the length of the arc.

noun. The limit of this ratio as the length of the arc approaches zero.

noun. The reciprocal of the radius of a circle.

noun. A curving or bending, especially an abnormal one.

noun. In projective geometry, susceptibility of being cut in two different points by a straight, independently of whether the construct possessing this property has any point at which two straights inclined to one another and lying in this construct might meet. In metric geometry curvature is often used for the measure of curvature or the reciprocal of the radius of curvature.

noun. Continuous bending; the essential character of a curve: applied primarily to lines, but also to surfaces. See phrases below.

noun. Any curving or bending; a flexure.

noun. Something which is curved or bent.

noun. The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve.

noun. The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point.

noun. the deviation of a curve from a circular form.

noun. See under Absolute.

noun. one that expresses the amount of curvature of a curve.

noun. See under Chord.

noun. See Osculating circle of a curve, under Circle.

noun. an abnormal curving of the spine, especially in a lateral direction.

noun. the radius of the circle of curvature, or osculatory circle, at any point of a curve.

noun. The shape of something curved.

noun. The extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space.

noun. The extent to which a Riemannian manifold is intrinsically curved.

noun. the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve

noun. the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface

noun. (medicine) a curving or bending; often abnormal

"The curvature of the spine, spoken of in this work as so common, and as the cause of so many diseases among American women, is what is denominated the _lateral curvature_, and is much more dangerous than the other distortion."

aberrancy of curvature  absolute curvature  angle of curvature  angular curvature of the spine  anticlastic curvature  

condition  derivative  derived function  differential  differential coefficient  

alignment  bend  bulge  circumference  compression  

bend  curve