📖 Definitions of "Curve"
- 1
A gentle bend, such as in a road.
"You should slow down when approaching a curve."
- 2
A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
"She scribbled a curve on the paper."
- 3
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.
"The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve."
- 4
A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
- 1
To bend; to crook.
"to curve a line"
- 2
To cause to swerve from a straight course.
"to curve a ball in pitching it"
- 3
To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
"the road curves to the right"
- 4
To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
"The teacher will curve the test."
- 1
Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
"a curve line"
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