curve

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Bent without angles; crooked; curved.

   “a curve line”

2. isim A gentle bend, such as in a road.

   “You should slow down when approaching a curve.”

3. isim A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.

   “She scribbled a curve on the paper.”

4. isim 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.”

5. isim A grading system where all raw scores are raised by a set amount of points.
6. isim A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
7. isim A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
8. isim An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
9. isim A one-dimensional continuum.
10. isim The attractive shape of a woman's body.
11. fiil To bend; to crook.

    “to curve a line”

12. fiil To cause to swerve from a straight course.

    “to curve a ball in pitching it”

13. fiil To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.

    “the road curves to the right”

14. fiil To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).

    “The teacher will curve the test.”

15. fiil To reject, to turn down romantic advances.

    “I was once curved three times by the same woman.”