Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being curved; curvature.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness.
Etymologies
- Latin curvitas, from curvus bent: compare French curvité. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But notwithstanding this plausible ground of suspicion, when I came to examine it I could observe no such curvity in them.”
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science
“He had written his essay on fluxions, described their application to fluents and tangents, and devised a plan for finding the radius of curvity in crooked lines.”
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