| Main Entry: | curvature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rounded part of thing, usually body part |
Synonyms: |
arc, arch, arching, bend, bow, curve, curving, curvity, deflection, flexure, incurvation, round, shape |
| Concept: | Curvature. |
| Category: | 2. Special Form |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
curvature, curvity, curvation; incurvature, incurvity; incurvation; bend; flexure, flexion; conflexure; crook, hook, bought, bending; deflexion, inflexion; concameration; arcuation, devexity, turn, deviation, detour, sweep; curl, curling; bough; recurvity, recurvation; sinuosity., carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule, horseshoe, loop, crane neck; parabola, hyperbola; catenary, festoon; conchoid, cardioid; caustic; tracery; arched ceiling, arched roof; bay window, bow window.
-verbs
be curved; sweep, swag, sag; deviate; turn; reenter., render curved; bend, curve, incurvate; deflect, inflect; crook; turn, round, arch, arcuate, arch over, concamerate; bow, curl, recurve, frizzle.
-adjectives
curved; curviform, curvilineal, curvilinear; devex, devious; recurved, recurvous; crump; bowed; vaulted, hooked; falciform, falcated; semicircular, crescentic; luniform, lunular; semilunar, conchoidal; cordiform, cordated; cardioid; heart shaped, bell shaped, boat shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped; reniform; lentiform, lenticular; bow-legged (distored) [more]; oblique; circular., aduncated, arclike, arcuate, beaked; bicorn, bicornuous, bicornute; clypeate, clypeiform; cymbiform, embowed, galeiform; hamate, hamiform, hamous; hooked; linguiform, lingulate; lobiform, lunate, navicular, peltate, remiform, rhamphoid; rostrate, rostiferous, rostroid; scutate, scaphoid, uncate; unguiculate, unguiform.
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Antonyms: |
straightness, angularity |
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| Main Entry: | arc |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | curve |
Synonyms: |
arch, bend, bow, crescent, curvation, curvature, half-moon, round |
| Notes: | ark is a large, commodious boat and arc is something shaped like a curve or arch; a segment of a circle |
| Main Entry: | arch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | curve, curved structure |
Synonyms: |
arc, archway, bend, bow, curvature, dome, semicircle, span, vault |
| Main Entry: | bend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | curve |
Synonyms: |
angle, arc, bending, bow, corner, crook, curvation, curvature, deflection, deviation, flection, flexure, hook, lean, loop, round, sag, shift, tack, tilt, turn, twist, yaw, zigzag |
Antonyms: |
line |
| Main Entry: | bow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bend from waist |
Synonyms: |
angle, arc, arch, bend, bending, bob, curtsy, curvation, curvature, curve, flection, flexure, genuflection, inclination, kowtow, nod, obeisance, round, salaam, turn, turning |
Antonyms: |
straighten |
| Main Entry: | curve |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arched, rounded line or object |
Synonyms: |
ambit, arc, arch, bend, bight, bow, camber, catenary, chord, circle, circuit, circumference, compass, concavity, contour, crook, curlicue, curvation, curvature, ellipse, festoon, flexure, hairpin, half-moon, helix, horseshoe, hyperbola, incurvation, incurvature, loop, meniscus, ogee, parabola, quirk, rondure, round, sinuosity, sweep, swerve, trajectory, turn, vault, whorl |
Antonyms: |
line |
| Main Entry: | round |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | globe, ball; semicircular area |
Synonyms: |
arc, arch, band, bend, bow, circle, circlet, curvation, curvature, curve, disc, disk, equator, eye, gyre, hoop, loop, orb, orbit, ring, ringlet, sphere, wheel |
| Main Entry: | genuflection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bow |
Synonyms: |
angle, arc, arch, bend, bending, bob, curtsy, curvation, curvature, curve, flection, flexure, inclination, kowtow, nod, obeisance, round, salaam, turn, turning |
| Main Entry: | curve |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
aquiline, barrel, bombé, bow, bowed, circular, concamerated, concavo, convexo, cordiform, crescentic, crump, curvate, curved, curviform, curvilineal, curvulate, cusped, devex, devious, downcurved, excurved, falcate, ficiform, fig, hooked, incurved, involute, lenticular, lentiform, looped, lunette, luniform, lunular, meniscal, meniscoid, oblique, obpyriform, pear, recurved, recurvous, reniform, retroflex, saber, semilunar, sigmoidal, sweeping, upcurved, vaulted
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