curvature (n.)

  1. (medicine) a curving or bending; often abnormal; curvature of the spine'

  2. the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve

  3. the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface

    [ Syn: curve ]

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