Phrase Hound found 100 phrases and 13 compound words that contain curves. The most common are listed below. Open curves in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 100
- bell curvesplural of bell curve: The bell-shaped curve that is typical of the normal distribution.
- blind curvesplural of blind curve: A dangerous curve on a roadway, around which drivers cannot see approaching traffic.
- demand curvesplural of demand curve: A graph depicting the relationship between the price of a certain commodity and the amount of it that consumers are willing and able to purchase at that given price.
- Edwards curvesplural of Edwards curve: Any of a family of elliptic curves with applications in cryptography.
- French curvesplural of French curve: A drafting template having edges of various curvatures, used for drawing smoothly-curved lines.
- learning curvesplural of learning curve: A visualization of the progress of learning as function of experience.
- light curvesplural of light curve: a graph of the intensity of radiation from an astronomical object as it changes with time
- plane curvesplural of plane curve: The locus of points in the Euclidean plane that satisfies some geometric or algebraic definition; a curve in a plane (as opposed to higher-dimensional space).
- rotation curvesplural of rotation curve: for a galaxy, a plot of the orbital velocity of objects with respect to the center of the galaxy, as a function of the distance between the two
- space curvesplural of space curve: Any curve in three-dimensional space; includes any plane curve as a subset.
- yield curvesplural of yield curve: The relation between the interest rate (or cost of borrowing) and the time to maturity of the debt for a given borrower in a given currency.
- algebraic curvesplural of algebraic curve: An algebraic variety of dimension one.
- Frey curvesplural of Frey curve: The elliptic curve associated with a solution of Fermat's equation.
- space-filling curvesplural of space-filling curve: a curve whose range contains the entire 2-dimensional unit square (or the 3-dimensional unit cube)
- indifference curvesplural of indifference curve: A graph showing different bundles of goods, each measured as to quantity, between which a consumer is indifferent.
- elliptic curvesplural of elliptic curve: The algebraic set of an equation which equates the square of one variable to a reduced cubic polynomial in another variable, over some field, and such that the discriminant of the reduced cubic is non-zero.
- Hilbert curvesplural of Hilbert curve: A continuous fractal space-filling curve.
- Lorenz curvesplural of Lorenz curve: A graph that shows the proportion of overall income or wealth of the bottom percentage of people, often used to represent economic inequality.
- Peano curvesplural of Peano curve: A space-filling curve in the 2-dimensional plane.
- Lissajous curvesplural of Lissajous curve: A plane curve traced by a point which executes two perpendicular independent harmonic motions, the frequencies of which are in a simple ratio.
- closed timelike curvesplural of closed timelike curve: A worldline that returns to its starting point.
- Kochanek-Bartels curvesplural of Kochanek-Bartels curve: A cubic Hermite spline with tension, bias and continuity parameters defined to change the behavior of the tangents.
- Lamé curvesplural of Lamé curve: a geometric shape constituting a transition between a rectangle and a circle; a closed curve, of which the circle and ellipse are special cases, whose parametric equation is x = a.cos^(2/r)t, y = b.cos^(2/r)t
- spacefilling curvesplural of spacefilling curve: a curve whose range contains the entire 2-dimensional unit square (or the 3-dimensional unit cube)
- tautochrone curvesplural of tautochrone curve: A curve, such that a weighted body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it begins to fall.
Compound words 13
- lightcurvesplural of lightcurve: a graph of the intensity of radiation from an astronomical object as it changes with time
- aerocurvesplural of aerocurve: A kind of early aeroplane with curved surfaces.
- countercurvesplural of countercurve: A curve running in the opposite direction to another curve.
- downcurvesplural of downcurve: A downward curve
- eigencurvesplural of eigencurve: A rigid analytic curve that parametrizes certain p-adic families of modular forms.
- epicurvesplural of epicurve: A graphical representation of the number of cases at the start of an epidemic
- flexicurvesplural of flexicurve: A strip of flexible material that can be used for drawing curves, measuring posture, etc.
- isocurvesplural of isocurve: An isoparametric curve
- knucklecurvesplural of knucklecurve: A type of pitch with characteristics of both a curveball and a knuckleball.
- meltcurvesplural of meltcurve: A graphical representation of the melting behaviour of a material as it is heated