Found 3 items, similar to Curve.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: curve belengkikan, belit, belok, belokan, bengkang, berbiku-biku, berkelok, enggokan, gelung, gelungan, kelok, liku, membelengkik, membentuk, mencembung, mencembungkan, tikungan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: curve curve v 1: turn sharply; change direction abruptly; “The car cut to the left at the intersection”; “The motorbike veered to the right” [syn: swerve, sheer, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut] 2: extend in curves and turns; “The road winds around the lake” [syn: wind] 3: form an arch or curve; “her back arches”; “her hips curve nicely” [syn: arch, arc] 4: bend or cause to bend; “He crooked his index finger”; “the road curved sharply” [syn: crook] 5: form a curl, curve, or kink; “the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling” [syn: curl, kink] curve n 1: the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes [syn: curved shape] [ant: straight line] 2: a line on a graph representing data 3: a baseball thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approach the batter [syn: curve ball, breaking ball, bender] 4: the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface [syn: curvature] 5: curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) [syn: bend]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Curve Curve \Curve\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Curved (k[^u]rvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Curving.] [L. curvare., fr. curvus. See Curve, a., Curb.] 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. [1913 Webster] Curve \Curve\ (k[^u]rv), a. [L. curvus bent, curved. See Cirb.] Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface. [1913 Webster] Curve \Curve\, n. [See Curve, a., Cirb.] 1. A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal. [1913 Webster] 2. (Geom.) A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line. [1913 Webster] Axis of a curve. See under Axis. Curve of quickest descent. See Brachystochrone. Curve tracing (Math.), the process of determining the shape, location, singular points, and other peculiarities of a curve from its equation. Plane curve (Geom.), a curve such that when a plane passes through three points of the curve, it passes through all the other points of the curve. Any other curve is called a curve of double curvature, or a twisted curve. [1913 Webster] Curve \Curve\, v. i. To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right. [1913 Webster]