English-Portuguese translations for curve

• curva
  Já deixou de ser uma curva: é uma queda livre. This is no longer a curved line: it is free fall.
  O bem-estar das pessoas não pode ser simplesmente expresso como um índice ou uma curva. People's well-being cannot simply be expressed as an index or a curve.
  Nesse momento, comparei a curva do declínio interanual à queda de uma folha. At the time, I compared the curved line of the year-on-year decline to a falling leaf.
• curvar
• curvas
• envergar

Definition of curve

• Bent without angles; crooked; curved
• A gentle bend, such as in a road
• A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line
• A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject
• A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space
• An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates
• The attractive shape of a woman's body
• To bend; to crook
• To cause to swerve from a straight course
• To bend or turn gradually from a given direction
• To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution
• To reject, to turn down romantic advances

Examples

• a curve line
• a curve surface
• You should slow down when approaching a curve
• She scribbled a curve on the paper
• The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve
• to curve a line
• to curve a pipe
• to curve a ball in pitching it
• the road curves to the right
• The teacher will curve the test
• I was once curved three times by the same woman

Related words

• curved
• recurve
• curveball
• curvet
• incurve
• curve bend over
• Curve of Spee
• Curve of Wilson
• curve sketching