curvature

noun

/ˈkɜɹ.və.tʃəɹ/US/kərˈʋe.tʃər/

Etymology

From Latin curvare, from Latin curvatura. See also curve. Displaced native Old English ġebīeġednes.

derived from curvatura
derived from curvare

Definitions

1
The shape of something curved.
- Constructional costs are kept to a minimum by the admissibility of heavy grades and sharp curvature.
- In the first of the movie's many striking images, we share his majestic view from the top, the curvature of the planet and the glow of the horizon brilliantly reflected in his helmet.
The extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space.
The extent to which a Riemannian manifold is intrinsically curved.

The neighborhood

Derived

anticurvature, center of curvature, centre of curvature, curvaton, Darwinian curvature, Gauss curvature, Gaussian curvature, isocurvature, microcurvature, miscurvature, radius of curvature, retrocurvature, Sachs' curvature, Sachs's curvature, supercurvature

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at curvature. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at curvature. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at curvature

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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