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a (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.

n A gentle bend, such as in a road.

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

n 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.

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

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

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

n (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.

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

v (transitive) To bend; to crook.

v (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.

v (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.

v To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).