Crossword-Solution: CURVATURE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Curvature | n. | The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve. |
| Curvature | n. | The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “CURVATURE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface | 1 answer |
| refraction | 1 answer |
| Degree of bending | 1 answer |
| CURVED thing | 2 answers |
| CURVED form | 2 answers |
| flexure | 4 answers |
| curvation | 4 answers |
| arcuation | 11 answers |
| arching | 11 answers |
| A CURVING OR BENDING | 11 answers |
| Camber | 13 answers |
| flexion | 14 answers |
| Cove | 34 answers |
| curving | 45 answers |
| deflection | 45 answers |
| bending | 56 answers |
| Arch | 57 answers |
| Digression | 59 answers |
| Curve | 60 answers |
| Bow | 60 answers |
| Sweep | 66 answers |
| BEND ___ | 75 answers |
| Span | 77 answers |
| Divergence | 84 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CURVATURE (5)
Over-the-horizon HF radars use the ionosphere as a kind of mirror to "see" around the curvature of the earth.
They should be achromatic, and the utmost transparency should be obtained; and under the closest inspection of the glass not the slightest wavy appearance, or dark spot should be detected; and a curvature which as much as possible prevents spherical aberration should be secured.
Absolute curvature (Geom.), that curvature of a curve of double curvature, which is measured in the osculating plane of the curve.
Some were quite small, but the majority about as big as an average balloon, and with much the same curvature at the top.
There was the same short, stocky trunk upon which rested an enormous head habitually bent forward into the same curvature as the back, the arms shorter than the legs, and the lower leg considerably shorter than that of modern man, the knees bent forward and never straightened.
Quotes with CURVATURE (3)
There is little more I can add short of dissecting the man, or going into intimate details such as the modest proportions and slight southeasterly curvature of his manhood.
The mist just keeps on lifting and soon I'll be able to see all the way, as far as the earth's curvature allows. It's a blessing, that curvature, that hidden hemisphere-if we could take it all in at one, why move?
No, not of course at all — it is really all hocus-pocus. The days lengthen in the winter-time, and when the longest comes, the twenty-first of June, the beginning of summer, they begin to go downhill again, toward winter. You call that ‘of course’; but if one once loses hold of the fact that it is of course, it is quite frightening, you feel like hanging on to something. It seems like a practical joke — that spring begins at the beginning of winter, and autumn at the beginnin…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1999).