English Explanatory Dictionary

curvature

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The shape of something curved.
  2. The extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space.
  3. The extent to which a Riemannian manifold is intrinsically curved.

Pronunciation

/ˈkɜɹ.və.tʃəɹ/ En-us-curvature.ogg /kərˈʋe.tʃər/

Word forms

curvature curvatures

Etymology

From Latin curvare, from Latin curvatura. See also curve. Displaced native Old English ġebīeġednes.

Derived words

anticurvature center of curvature centre of curvature curvaton Darwinian curvature Gauss curvature Gaussian curvature isocurvature microcurvature miscurvature radius of curvature retrocurvature Sachs' curvature Sachs's curvature supercurvature
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