| 单词 | curved shape |
| 释义 | curved shape (once / 369354 pages) n WORD FAMILY curved shape: curved shapes USAGE EXAMPLESThe inspiration for its curved shape was an old English tea kettle at a flea market years ago. Wall Street Journal(Oct 26, 2016) Then, a familiar curved shape, glowing with light: Earth, our old friend, our home. The New Yorker(Aug 13, 2016) The curved shape of the stages used in the ceremony are a nod to Oscar Niemeyer, a key figure in Brazilian architecture. Washington Times(Aug 05, 2016) n the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper curve straight line a line traced by a point traveling in a constant direction; a line of zero curvature Gaussian curve, Gaussian shape, bell-shaped curve, normal curve a symmetrical curve representing the normal distribution meandera bend or curve, as in a stream or river closed curvea curve (such as a circle) having no endpoints S-shapea double curve resembling the letter S catenarythe curve theoretically assumed by a perfectly flexible and inextensible cord of uniform density and cross section hanging freely from two fixed points Cupid's bowthe double curve of the upper lip when considered to resemble Cupid's bow undulation, wavean undulating curve extradosthe exterior curve of an arch goosenecksomething in a thin curved form (like the neck of a goose) intradosthe interior curve of an arch bend, crook, turn, twista circular segment of a curve crotchet, hooka sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook envelopea curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves arca continuous portion of a circle crenation, crenature, crenel, crenelle, scallopone of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) spirala plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center helix, spirala curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle perversiona curve that reverses the direction of something sinuosity, sinuousnesshaving curves archa curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening bell, bell shape, campanathe shape of a bell arc, bowsomething curved in shape crescentany shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters quadric, quadric surfacea curve or surface whose equation (in Cartesian coordinates) is of the second degree line roulette, roulettea line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure limbthe graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles oxbowa U-shaped curve in a stream rainbowan arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain Jordan curve, simple closed curvea closed curve that does not intersect itself uncus(biology) any hook-shaped process or part bighta bend or curve (especially in a coastline) double helixa pair of parallel helices intertwined about a common axis hyperboloida quadric surface generated by rotating a hyperbola around its main axis cycloida line generated by a point on a circle rolling along a straight line sine curve, sinusoidthe curve of y=sin x epicycloida line generated by a point on a circle rolling around another circle hypocycloida line generated by a point on a circle that rolls around inside another circle line a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point |
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