Curves
/kɜːvz/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:11 ptsWWF:14 pts6 letters
Definition of Curves
noun
- A gentle bend, such as in a road.
"You should slow down when approaching a curve."
- A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
"She scribbled a curve on the paper."
- 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."
- A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
- A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
verb
- To bend; to crook.
"to curve a line"
- To cause to swerve from a straight course.
"to curve a ball in pitching it"
- To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
"the road curves to the right"
- To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
"The teacher will curve the test."
- To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
"I was once curved three times by the same woman."
Anagrams of Curves
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