Seeing as the curvature is smaller than unity, once the curve leaves the unit circle it will not come back.
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Curvature
//ˈkɝ.və.t͡ʃɚ//
Synonyms for "curvature" (11 found)
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12 entriesderived
15 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
4 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
56 translations across 34 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- lakim noun (the shape of something curved)
Arabic
1 entries- انحناء noun (the shape of something curved)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- əyrilik noun (the shape of something curved)
Basque
1 entries- kurbadura noun (the shape of something curved)
Catalan
1 entries- curvatura noun (the shape of something curved)
Czech
1 entries- zakřivení noun (the shape of something curved)
Dutch
1 entries- kromming noun (the shape of something curved)
Finnish
3 entries- kaarevuus noun (the shape of something curved)
- kaarevuus noun (mathematics: the extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space)
- kaarevuus noun (differential geometry: of a Riemannian manifold)
French
2 entries- courbure noun (the shape of something curved)
- courbure noun (differential geometry: of a Riemannian manifold)
Galician
1 entries- curvatura noun (the shape of something curved)
German
2 entries- Krümmung noun (the shape of something curved)
- Krümmung noun (differential geometry: of a Riemannian manifold)
Greek
3 entries- καμπυλότητα noun (the shape of something curved)
- καμπυλότητα noun (differential geometry: of a Riemannian manifold)
- κυρτότητα noun (the shape of something curved)
Hindi
1 entries- वक्रता noun (the shape of something curved)
Hungarian
4 entries- elferdülés noun (the shape of something curved)
- elgörbülés noun (the shape of something curved)
- ferdülés noun (the shape of something curved)
- görbület noun (the shape of something curved)
Indonesian
2 entries- lekuk noun (differential geometry: of a Riemannian manifold)
- lengkungan noun (the shape of something curved)
Irish
1 entries- cuaire noun (the shape of something curved)
Italian
1 entries- curvatura noun (the shape of something curved)
Japanese
1 entries- 曲率 noun (the shape of something curved)
Korean
1 entries- 곡률 noun (the shape of something curved)
Latvian
1 entries- izliekums noun (the shape of something curved)
Lithuanian
1 entries- išlinkis noun (the shape of something curved)
Macedonian
3 entries- закривеност noun (the shape of something curved)
- закривеност noun (mathematics: the extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space)
- закривеност noun (differential geometry: of a Riemannian manifold)
Māori
1 entries- ānautanga noun (the shape of something curved)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- krumning noun (the shape of something curved)
- krumning noun (mathematics: the extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space)
- kurvatur noun (the shape of something curved)
- kurvatur noun (mathematics: the extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- kurvatur noun (the shape of something curved)
- kurvatur noun (mathematics: the extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space)
Old English
1 entries- ġebīeġednes noun (the shape of something curved)
Polish
3 entries- krzywizna noun (the shape of something curved)
- krzywizna noun (mathematics: the extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space)
- krzywizna noun (differential geometry: of a Riemannian manifold)
Portuguese
2 entries- curvatura noun (the shape of something curved)
- curvatura noun (mathematics: the extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space)
Romanian
1 entries- curbură noun (differential geometry: of a Riemannian manifold)
Russian
1 entries- кривизна noun (the shape of something curved)
Spanish
3 entries- curvatura noun (the shape of something curved)
- curvatura noun (mathematics: the extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space)
- curvatura noun (differential geometry: of a Riemannian manifold)
Tagalog
2 entries- kakiluan noun (mathematics: the extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space)
- kakiluan noun (differential geometry: of a Riemannian manifold)
Turkish
1 entries- eğrilik noun (the shape of something curved)
Welsh
1 entries- crymedd noun (the shape of something curved)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
One of Einstein's ideas is that objects cause the space around them to curve. He thought that large objects, like the Sun, curve the space around them more than small objects do. Objects moving through space follow the curvature.
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The curvature of the Earth was first photographed in 1931.
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As every portrait painter knows, the slightest change in the shape of eyebrows, the curvature of lips or a crease in the forehead can alter the expression of a person's face — and affect how someone else responds.
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