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Definition of Curving
1. Adjective. Having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend. "His curved lips suggested a smile but his eyes were hard"
Similar to: Arced, Arched, Arching, Arciform, Arcuate, Bowed, Curvilineal, Curvilinear, Eellike, Falcate, Falciform, Sickle-shaped, Curvey, Curvy, Flexuous, Hooked, Hooklike, Incurvate, Incurved, Recurvate, Recurved, Semicircular, Serpentine, Snakelike, Snaky, Sinuate, Sinuous, Wiggly, Sinusoidal, Upcurved
Antonyms: Straight
Definition of Curving
1. Verb. (present participle of curve) ¹
2. Noun. The action of the verb '''to curve'''. ¹
3. Adjective. That curves or curve. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Curving
1. curve [v] - See also: curve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curving
Literary usage of Curving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Field-book for Railroad Engineers: Circular and Parabolic Curves, Turnouts by John Benjamin Henck (1896)
"The ordinates for curving 30 feet rails will, of course, be unchanged. In the
present example the- ordinates would bo ~~.~ — .655 and —— = .491, the tangent ..."
2. The Road-master's Assistant and Section-master's Guide: A Manual of by William S. Huntington, Charles Latimer (1877)
"curving RAILS WITH LEVER AND curving HOOK—METHOD OF FINDING APPROXIMATELY ...
curving RAILS.* THIS is something not very well understood ; at least there ..."
3. Bulletin by Seventh-Day Adventists General Conference. Dept. of Education (1912)
"Draw with curving strokes until the space is covered and the desired shape is
drawn in. Then with the fingers blend the edges until ..."
4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1910)
"Note the small amount of posterior curving in lateral view; also the small amount
of outward curvature in front view as compared with the usual deformity, ..."
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