Curvature
Nouns
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curvature, curvity, curvation
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incurvature, incurvity
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incurvation
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bend
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flexure, flexion, flection
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conflexure
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crook, hook, bought, bending
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deflection, deflexion
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inflection, inflexion
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concameration
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arcuation, devexity, turn, deviation, detour, sweep
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curl, curling
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bough
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recurvity, recurvation
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sinuosity etc. [Complex curvature.] Convolution. kink. carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule, horseshoe, loop, crane neck
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parabola, hyperbola
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helix, spiral
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catenary, festoon
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conchoid, cardioid
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caustic
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tracery
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arched ceiling, arched roof
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bay window, bow window. sine curve
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spline, spline curve, spline function
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obliquity etc. Obliquity.
Verbs
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be curved, c. adj.
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curve, sweep, sway, swag, sag
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deviate etc. Deviation
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curl, turn
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reenter. render curved etc. adj.
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flex, bend, curve, incurvate
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inflect
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deflect, scatter [Phys.]
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refract (light) Light
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crook
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turn, round, arch, arcuate, arch over, concamerate
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bow, curl, recurve, frizzle. rotundity etc. Rotundity
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convexity etc. Convexity.
Adjectives
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curved etc. v.
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curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear
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devex, devious
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recurved, recurvous
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crump
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bowed etc. v.
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vaulted, hooked
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falciform, falcated
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semicircular, crescentic
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sinusoid [Geom.], parabolic, paraboloid
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luniform, lunular
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semilunar, conchoidal
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helical, double helical, spiral
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kinky
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cordiform, cordated
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cardioid
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heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped
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kidney-shaped, reniform
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lentiform, lenticular
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bow-legged etc. (distorted) [Irregularity of form.] Distortion
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oblique etc. Obliquity
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circular etc. [Simple circularity.] Circularity. aduncated, arclike, arcuate, arched, beaked
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bicorn, bicornuous, bicornute
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clypeate, clypeiform
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cymbiform, embowed, galeiform
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hamate, hamiform, hamous
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hooked
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linguiform, lingulate
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lobiform, lunate, navicular, peltate, remiform, rhamphoid
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rostrate, rostriferous, rostroid
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scutate, scaphoid, uncate
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unguiculate, unguiform.