cuhve

Noun

curve (plural curves)

1. A bend, such as in a road.
   • You should slow down when approaching a curve.
2. A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
   • She scribbled a curve on the paper.
3. A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
   • The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve.
   1. (broadly, nonstandard) A grading system where all raw scores are raised by a set number of points.
4. (analytic) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
5. A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.

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