curvilinear

• 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. —  AllYourTV.com: Your Complete Guide To All Things TV
• The classical vibrational kinetic energy has the form: where gst is an element of the metric tensor of the internal (curvilinear) coordinates. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• (07 November 2003) - 2003.07.11 Manhattan User's Guide reported that Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal at JFK, that glorious, swooping, curvilinear icon, which proves that a building doesn't need great height in order to soar, is about to be destroyed by the Port Authority. —  Cool Hunting
• It is possible to write the quantum mechanical kinetic energy operator for such [[curvilinear coordinates]], but it is hard to formulate a general theory applicable to any molecule. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• It is possible to write the quantum mechanical kinetic energy operator for such curvilinear coordinates, but it is hard to formulate a general theory applicable to any molecule. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]

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