Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Formed, bounded, or characterized by curved lines.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having a curved line; consisting of or bounded by curved lines: as, a curvilinear figure.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having bends; curved; curvilineal.
- adj. geometry, art Formed by curved lines.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. characterized by or following a curved line
Etymologies
- Latin curvus, curved; see curve + linear. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“On this account they are generally grown in curvilinear houses, that is, houses that have glass on all sides, like that in the garden of the London Horticultural Society at Turnham Green.”
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
“A more advanced form of EUS, called curvilinear EUS, allows doctors to operate within the lumen of the gut while at the same time detect, biopsy and treat lesions and tumors that lie outside the intestinal wall.”
“A more advanced version, called curvilinear EUS, allows doctors to operate within the gut while at the same time detect, biopsy and treat lesions and tumours that lie outside the intestinal wall.”
“What, after all, do you call a business whose very name invokes the kind of curvilinear architecture the Jetsons once enjoyed?”
“Water-filled tubes intersected irregular rooms in a kind of curvilinear logic.”
“The Starck Mobile features a "curvilinear" aluminum flask design and an embedded USB cable about six inches in length.”
“Julia prattles on about "curvilinear" lines in the architecture, which Leo enourages and Izzy look at Leo strangely (but dissimulated) because we can see she doesn't even think that Leo even knows what "curvilinear" means.”
“When the couple married 12 years ago, Ms. Lavin assumed Mr. Lynn, an early innovator of computer-modeling technology in architecture who is also known for his curvilinear, maximalist designs, would want to create their home.”
“Noah Webb for The Wall Street Journal When the couple married 12 years ago, Ms. Lavin assumed Mr. Lynn, an early innovator of computer-modeling technology in architecture who is also known for his curvilinear, maximalist designs, would want to create their home.”
“Lineads are hand-drawn gestural marks and curvilinear lines; geomes are solid geometric shapes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘curvilinear’.
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
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Shapes
discoidal, orbicular, spherical, hemispheric, rectilinearity, concentricity, equiangular, stellate, concavities, convexity, spiralling, cruciform and 25 more...
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Cangrejero's Words
hectic, energy, orthogonal, curvilinear, disparate, charlatan, convolution, sophomoric, elasticity, differential, champion, inertia and 9 more...
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for curvilinear.
chained_bear But oh so much more sonorous. Oct 2, 2007
skipvia One of those words that is almost as long as its definition--a line that curves. Kind of obvious, isn't it? Oct 2, 2007