Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Curvature

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