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Moderatecurves
The correct spelling is curves.
How to pronounce curves
/kɜːvz/
nounIPA: /kɜːvz/
Say it like: Cur-ves
The correct spelling is curves. A gentle bend, such as in a road. For example: "You should slow down when approaching a curve."
Usage Examples
“You should slow down when approaching a curve.”
“She scribbled a curve on the paper.”
“The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A gentle bend, such as in a road.
- 2.A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
- 3.A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
- 4.A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
- 5.A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
verb
- 1.To bend; to crook.
- 2.To cause to swerve from a straight course.
- 3.To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
- 4.To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
- 5.To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
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