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Plural of curvature

regular plural

The plural of curvature is curvatures.

Forms of curvature

Singularcurvature /ˈkɜɹ.və.tʃəɹ/
Pluralcurvatures
Countablecountable and uncountable

Curvatures in a sentence

  • Biomechanical instruments, such as the rachiometer and posturometer, have been developed to record spinal curvatures and relate these to radiological findings.1987, Peter Curtis, “The Efficacy of Spinal Manipulation”, in Clinical concepts in regional musculoskeletal illness, page 55. From the entry rachiometer
  • If these particles carry unit positive charge the curvatures and ionizations produced require the mass to be less than twenty times the electron mass.[1933 March 15, Carl D. Anderson, “The Positive Electron”, in Physical Review, volume 43. From the entry positron
  • The innumerable gradations of malplacements from the almost imperceptible slip to the complete dislocation, the numerous possible curvatures and the various arthritic effects comprise a tremendous field.1913, The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, page 337. From the entry malplacement

Meaning of curvature

  1. noun The shape of something curved.
  2. noun The extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space.
  3. noun The extent to which a Riemannian manifold is intrinsically curved.

Full definition of curvature

Questions about the plural of curvature

What is the plural of curvature?
The plural of curvature is curvatures.
Is curvature countable?
Curvature is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curvature (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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