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  • 41Curve Steepener Trade — A strategy that uses derivatives to benefit from escalating yield differences that occur as a result of increases in the yield curve between two Treasury bonds of different maturities. This strategy can be effective in certain macroeconomic… …

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  • 42curve — {{11}}curve (n.) 1690s, curved line, from CURVE (Cf. curve) (v.). With reference to the female figure (usually plural, curves), from 1862; as a type of baseball pitch, from 1879. {{12}}curve (v.) early 15c. (implied in curved), from L. curvus… …

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  • 43Curve of pursuit — Pursuit Pur*suit , n. [F. poursuite, fr. poursuivre. See {Pursue}, v. t.] 1. The act of following or going after; esp., a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy …

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  • 44curve of areas — a curve that is composed in its foward half of a curve of versed sines and in its after half of a trochoid and is used in distributing the displacement in the design of a ship …

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  • 45curve — Adiabatic Ad i*a*bat ic, a. [Gr. ? not passable; a priv. + ? through + ? to go.] (Physics) Not giving out or receiving heat. {Ad i*a*bat ic*al*ly}, adv. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Note: The adiabatic expansion of carbon dioxide from a compressed… …

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  • 46curve deficiency — noun The difference between the number of double points on a curve and the maximum possible for a curve of that degree <! There is a second meaning that is something to do with the curvature of a road …

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  • 47curve — 1. noun /kɜːv,kɝv/ a) A gentle bend, such as in a road. b) A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line. 2. verb /kɜːv,kɝv/ a) To bend; to crook …

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  • 48curve — [15] Curve has a wide circle of relations in English. It comes from Latin curvus ‘curved’, which had connections with Greek kurtós ‘curved’, Greek korōnos ‘curved’ (source of English crown), and Greek kírkos ‘ring, circle’ (source of English… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 49curve — [15] Curve has a wide circle of relations in English. It comes from Latin curvus ‘curved’, which had connections with Greek kurtós ‘curved’, Greek korōnos ‘curved’ (source of English crown), and Greek kírkos ‘ring, circle’ (source of English… …

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  • 50And Be a Villain — infobox Book | name = And Be a Villain title orig = translator = image caption = author = Rex Stout cover artist = Bill English country = United States language = English series = Nero Wolfe genre = Detective fiction publisher = Viking Press… …

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