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  • 1decreasing-radius corner — A turn where the arc gets sharper as you progress through the curve …

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  • 2Cost curve — In economics, a cost curve is a graph of the costs of production as a function of total quantity produced. In a free market economy, productively efficient firms use these curves to find the optimal point of production (minimising cost), and… …

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  • 3Kuznets curve — is the graphical representation of Simon Kuznets s theory ( Kuznets hypothesis ) that economic inequality increases over time while a country is developing, then after a critical average income is attained, begins to decrease. One theory as to… …

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  • 4Bathtub curve — The bathtub curve is widely used in reliability engineering, although the general concept is also applicable to humans. It describes a particular form of the hazard function which comprises three parts:*The first part is a decreasing failure rate …

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  • 5Z-order curve — Not to be confused with Z curve or Z order. Four iterations of the Z order curve …

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  • 6Z-order (curve) — Z order, or Morton order, first proposed in 1966 by G. M. Morton, [citation|first=G. M.|last=Morton|title=A computer Oriented Geodetic Data Base; and a New Technique in File Sequencing|series=Technical Report|publisher=IBM Ltd.|location=Ottawa,… …

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  • 7Dual curve — Curves, dual to each other; see below for properties. In projective geometry, a dual curve of a given plane curve C is a curve in the dual projective plane consisting of the set of lines tangent to C. There is a map from a curve to its dual,… …

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  • 8Lorenz curve — The Lorenz curve is a graphical representation of the cumulative distribution function of a probability distribution; it is a graph showing the proportion of the distribution assumed by the bottom y % of the values. It is often used to represent… …

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  • 9Beveridge curve — A Beveridge curve is a graphical representation of the relationship between unemployment and the job vacancy rate (the number of unfilled jobs expressed as a proportion of the labor force). It typically has vacancies on the vertical axis and… …

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  • 10Exponential curve — Exponential Ex po*nen tial, a. [Cf. F. exponentiel.] 1. Pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential function. [1913 Webster] 2. changing over time in an exponential… …

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