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91Curve of sines — Sine Sine, n. [LL. sinus a sine, L. sinus bosom, used in translating the Ar. jaib, properly, bosom, but probably read by mistake (the consonants being the same) for an original j[=i]ba sine, from Skr. j[=i]va bowstring, chord of an arc, sine.]… …
92curve-veined — Curvinerved Cur vi*nerved ( n?rvd ), a. [L. curvus bent + E. nerve. ] (Bot.) Having the ribs or the veins of the leaves curved; called also {curvinervate} and {curve veined}. [1913 Webster] …
93curve fitting — noun Date: 1902 the empirical determination of a curve or function that approximates a set of data …
94curve, concentration — The rising limb on a hydrograph curve [16] …
95curve fitting — The fitting of experimental data points to a theoretical type curve [16] …
96curve — Synonyms and related words: aberrancy, aberration, arc, arch, artful dodge, artifice, bag of tricks, bear off, bend, bend back, bias, blind, bluff, bosey, bow, bowl, branch off, branching off, cast, catacaustic, catch, catenary, caustic, change… …
97curve — [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… …
98curve — See: throw a curve …
99curve — kÉœËv n. line that is not straight, continuously bending line; bend, turn (in a road) v. form into a curve, bend; turn …
100curve of pursuit — The curved path followed by an attacker onto target aircraft when attacking from a position that is not directly astern, or straight ahead, and while holding the proper aiming allowance. Ideally, an aircraft should be line astern of the target at …
