Usually means: Path connecting points with continuity.
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General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. curve: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. curve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. curve: Collins English Dictionary
  5. curve: Vocabulary.com
  6. Curve, curve: Wordnik
  7. curve: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. curve: Wiktionary
  9. curve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. curve: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. curve: Dictionary.com
  12. curve (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. curve: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Curve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. curve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. curve: Rhymezone
  18. curve: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. curve: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. curve: Free Dictionary
  21. curve: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. curve: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. curve: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. curve: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. curve: Infoplease Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. curve: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Curve: Glossary of Binary Graphics

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. curve: Legal dictionary
  2. curve, curve: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. curve: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. curve: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CURVE: Acronym Finder
  2. curve: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Curve: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. curve: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  4. curve, curve: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. curve, curve: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. curve, the curve: Urban Dictionary

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

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
noun:  A gentle bend, such as in a road.
noun:  A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
noun:  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.
noun:  (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
noun:  (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
noun:  (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
noun:  (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
noun:  (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
verb:  (transitive) To bend; to crook.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
verb:  (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
verb:  (transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
verb:  (transitive) (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.

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