Curvature
['kɜːvətʃə] or ['kɝvətʃɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface.
(noun.) the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve.
(noun.) (medicine) a curving or bending; often abnormal; 'curvature of the spine'.
达拉整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve.
(n.) The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point.
錄入:欧文
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Bending, bend, flexure, crook, curvity, curve, incurvation, ARCUATION.
手打:旺达
例句/造句/用法:
- When we look at near objects, the muscles act in such a way that the lens bulges out, and becomes thick in the middle and of the right curvature to focus the near object upon the screen. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- They are sent out through this magnetic field, and follow the earth’s curvature, in the same way that tidal waves follow the ocean’s surface. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- When we look at an object several hundred feet away, the muscles change their pull on the lens and flatten it until it is of the proper curvature for the new distance. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In the skeletons of the several breeds, the development of the bones of the face, in length and breadth and curvature, differs enormously. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- These curves, according to their curvature, will give a circular motion to the shot during its flight. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The country was a rolling prairie, and, from the higher ground, the vision was obstructed only by the earth's curvature. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It is designed to ascertain variations in corneal curvature for the correction of corneal astigmatism. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
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