"curvature" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkɝ.və.t͡ʃɚ/ [US] Audio: En-us-curvature.ogg 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, {{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), cuaire [feminine] (Irish), 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), crymedd [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-curvature-en-noun-6a55Y71r Disambiguation of 'the shape of something curved': 82 7 11
  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 Topics: mathematics, sciences Disambiguation of 'mathematics: the extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space': 11 64 25
  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)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "differential geometry: of a Riemannian manifold",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "curbură"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "differential geometry: of a Riemannian manifold",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "curvatura"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "differential geometry: of a Riemannian manifold",
      "word": "kakiluan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "curvature"
}

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