Curved

//kɝːvd// adj, verb

adj, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of curve form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a curve or curves; curving.

    "These VEAs (of which some 550 were built in total) would themselves have been converted from 1962 vanwides, refurbished and fitted with airbrakes specifically with Ministry of Defence munitions traffic in mind, as many military establishments and depots would have had track too sharply curved for newer airbraked wagons."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
arciformcurvilinealcurvyincurvedrecurvateserpentine

Example

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"In General Relativity the observed global effect of gravity arises from strictly local interaction with curved space-time."

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