"curvature" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkɝ.və.t͡ʃɚ/ [US] Audio: En-us-curvature.ogg [US] Forms: curvatures [plural]
Etymology: From Latin curvare, from Latin curvatura. See also curve. Displaced native Old English ġebīeġednes. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|curvare}} Latin curvare, {{der|en|la|curvatura}} Latin curvatura, {{m|en|curve}} curve, {{ncog|ang|ġebīeġednes}} Old English ġebīeġednes Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} curvature (countable and uncountable, plural curvatures)
  1. The shape of something curved. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the shape of something curved): lakim (Albanian), انحناء (anhina') (Arabic), əyrilik (Azerbaijani), kurbadura (Basque), curvatura [feminine] (Catalan), zakřivení (Czech), kromming (Dutch), kaarevuus (Finnish), courbure [feminine] (French), curvatura [feminine] (Galician), Krümmung (German), καμπυλότητα (kampylótita) [feminine] (Greek), κυρτότητα (kyrtótita) [feminine] (Greek), görbület (Hungarian), elgörbülés (Hungarian), elferdülés (Hungarian), -ferdülés (Hungarian), lengkungan (Indonesian), curvatura [feminine] (Italian), 曲率 (kyokuritsu) (Japanese), 곡률 (gongnyul) (Korean), izliekums (Latvian), išlinkis (Lithuanian), закривеност (zakrivenost) [feminine] (Macedonian), ānautanga (Maori), krumning [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), kurvatur [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), kurvatur [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), ġebīeġednes [feminine] (Old English), krzywizna (Polish), curvatura [feminine] (Portuguese), кривизна (krivizna) (Russian), curvatura [feminine] (Spanish), eğrilik (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-curvature-en-noun-6a55Y71r Disambiguation of 'the shape of something curved': 82 7 10
  2. (mathematics) The extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Curves, Mathematics Translations (mathematics: the extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space): kaarevuus (Finnish), закривеност (zakrivenost) [feminine] (Macedonian), krumning [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), kurvatur [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), kurvatur [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), curvatura [feminine] (Portuguese), curvatura [feminine] (Spanish), kakiluan (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-curvature-en-noun-cdQYTx6b Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 55 38 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 11 50 39 Topics: mathematics, sciences Disambiguation of 'mathematics: the extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space': 8 70 22
  3. (differential geometry) The extent to which a Riemannian manifold is intrinsically curved. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Geometry Translations (differential geometry: of a Riemannian manifold): kaarevuus (Finnish), courbure [feminine] (French), Krümmung [feminine] (German), καμπυλότητα (kampylótita) [feminine] (Greek), lekuk (Indonesian), закривеност (zakrivenost) [feminine] (Macedonian), curbură [feminine] (Romanian), curvatura [feminine] (Spanish), kakiluan (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-curvature-en-noun-Red0VI6W Disambiguation of 'differential geometry: of a Riemannian manifold': 6 16 78
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: center of curvature, centre of curvature, Darwinian curvature, Gauss curvature, Gaussian curvature, radius of curvature

Noun [Italian]

Head templates: {{head|it|noun form|g=f}} curvature f
  1. plural of curvatura Tags: feminine, form-of, plural Form of: curvatura
    Sense id: en-curvature-it-noun-OGFYACP8 Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header

Verb [Latin]

Forms: curvātūre [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|la|participle form|head=curvātūre}} curvātūre
  1. vocative masculine singular of curvātūrus Tags: form-of, masculine, participle, singular, vocative Form of: curvātūrus
    Sense id: en-curvature-la-verb-ktvTj8PD Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Old French]

Forms: curvature oblique singular or [canonical, feminine], curvatures [oblique, plural], curvature [nominative, singular], curvatures [nominative, plural]
Head templates: {{fro-noun|f}} curvature oblique singular, f (oblique plural curvatures, nominative singular curvature, nominative plural curvatures)
  1. curvature
    Sense id: en-curvature-fro-noun-zpfkSfSf Categories (other): Old French entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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      "code": "sq",
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      "word": "zakřivení"
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      "word": "kromming"
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      "word": "kaarevuus"
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}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1147",
  "msg": "suspicious related form tags ['feminine', 'canonical']: 'curvature oblique singular or' in 'curvature oblique singular, f (oblique plural curvatures, nominative singular curvature, nominative plural curvatures)'",
  "path": [
    "curvature"
  ],
  "section": "Old French",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "curvature",
  "trace": ""
}

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