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(medicine) a curving or bending; often abnormal; "curvature of the spine" the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface
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| curvature |
A bend that may be present in a particular body structure, eg, the spine.
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| curvature |
the deviation of an object or of space or of spacetime from a flat form and therefore from the rules of geometry codified by Euclid.
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| curvature |
The amount of departure from a flat surface as applied to lenses.
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| curvature |
a measure of the amount of curving. The curvature of a lens is what causes light rays to bend.
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