curves

/kɜːvz/ · noun

Meaning

A gentle bend, such as in a road.
A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
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.
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.
To bend; to crook.
To cause to swerve from a straight course.
To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
To reject, to turn down romantic advances.

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