curves
/kɜːvz//kɚvz/
curves is the plural of curve.
curves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of curve.
Meaning of curve
Noun
curve (plural curves)
- A bend, such as in a road.
- You should slow down when approaching a curve.
- A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
- She scribbled a curve on the paper.
- 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.
- A grading system where all raw scores are raised by a set number of points.
- A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
- A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
Phrases with curves
- J curves
- epi curves
- bean curves
- bell curves
- duck curves
- Frey curves
- Lamé curves
- open curves
- Page curves
- Rahn curves
- rose curves
- sail curves
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- sine curves
- skew curves
- time curves
- Allen curves
- blind curves
- cubic curves
- Engel curves
- light curves
- offer curves
- Peano curves
- pedal curves
- plane curves
- space curves
- yield curves
- Bézier curves
- closed curves
- cosine curves
- demand curves
- dragon curves
- Fermat curves
- French curves
- Gosper curves
- Jordan curves
- Laffer curves
- Lorenz curves
- Pareto curves
- radial curves
- simple curves
- single curves
- supply curves
- Takagi curves
- bathtub curves
- caustic curves
- de Rham curves
- deltoid curves
- Edwards curves
- foliate curves
- hairpin curves
- Hilbert curves
- Hubbert curves
- Kuznets curves
- pursuit curves
- reverse curves
- compound curves
- contract curves
- dumbbell curves
- elliptic curves
- epidemic curves
- Gaussian curves
- Gompertz curves
- L-shaped curves
- learning curves
- logistic curves
- Phillips curves
- rotation curves
- velocity curves
- algebraic curves
- Beveridge curves
- horseshoe curves
- Lissajous curves
- nonsimple curves
- snowflake curves
- spherical curves
- battleship curves
- blancmange curves
- cocked hat curves
- curves of pursuit
- logocyclic curves
- Sierpinski curves
- traveltime curves
- tricuspoid curves
- tautochrone curves
- Bethe-Slater curves
- distribution curves
- Great Gatsby curves
- hockey stick curves
- indifference curves
- spacefilling curves
- space-filling curves
- closed timelike curves
- epidemiological curves
- composite Bézier curves
- Kochanek-Bartels curves
- battleship-shaped curves
- concentration-time curves
- Hellings and Downs curves
- production possibility curves
Words that rhyme with curves
Questions about curves
- What is curves the plural of?
- Curves is the plural of curve.
- How do you pronounce curves?
- Curves is pronounced /kɜːvz/ (UK).
Words near curves in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: curves (page history and authors); curve (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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