Usually means: Measure of vector field rotation.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Curl, curl: Merriam-Webster
  2. curl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Curl, curl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. curl: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Curl, curl: Vocabulary.com
  6. Curl, curl: Wordnik
  7. curl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Curl, curl: Wiktionary
  9. curl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. curl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. curl: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Curl, curl: Dictionary.com
  13. curl: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. curl: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CURL, Curl (Japanese snack), Curl (association football), Curl (command), Curl (disambiguation), Curl (football), Curl (mathematics), Curl (programming language), Curl (route), Curl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Curl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. curl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Curl: Rhymezone
  19. curl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. curl: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CURL: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. curl: FreeDictionary.org
  23. curl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Curl: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. curl: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technopedia (No longer online)
  2. Curl (mathematics), Curl (maths), Curl (vector calculus), curl: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. curl (n.): Cats
  2. CURL: Acronym Finder
  3. curl: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Curl: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. curl: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. curl, curl, curl, curl: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Curl, curl: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Curl: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Paper Making (No longer online)
  5. Curl: Glossary of Woodworking Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.
noun:  A curved stroke or shape.
noun:  A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
noun:  (curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
noun:  (weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
noun:  (calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
noun:  (calculus, proper noun) The vector operator, denoted rm curl; or ⃑∇×⃑(·), that generates this field.
noun:  (agriculture, phytopathology) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
noun:  (music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
noun:  (American football) A pattern where the receiver appears to be running a fly pattern but after a set number of steps or yards quickly stops and turns around, looking for a pass.
noun:  (baking, chiefly in the plural) A thin, curved piece of chocolate used as decoration.
noun:  (surfing) The concave part of a breaking wave.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to move in a curve.
verb:  (transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.
verb:  (intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
verb:  (intransitive) To move in curves.
verb:  (intransitive, curling) To take part in the sport of curling.
verb:  (transitive, weightlifting) To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
verb:  To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
verb:  To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
verb:  To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
verb:  (hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Clipping of American Curl. [A shorthair or semi-longhair domestic cat breed originating in the United States. This breed displays distinctive backward-curling ears.]

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