English Dictionary

curve

IPA（発音記号）

/kɜːv/

名詞

迂言形 くだけた表現 通例複数形

A gentle bend, such as in a road. / A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.

日本語の意味

湾曲した線、曲線 / （道などの）緩やかな曲がり、曲がり角

She slowed down before the gentle curve on the country road.

彼女は田舎道の緩やかなカーブの手前で速度を落とした。

意味（1）

A gentle bend, such as in a road.

You should slow down when approaching a curve.

意味（2）

A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.

She scribbled a curve on the paper.

意味（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.

意味（4）

(analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.

意味（5）

(geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.

意味（6）

(algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.

意味（7）

(topology) A one-dimensional continuum.

意味（8）

(informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.

curves （ plural ）