curvature

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈkɜɹ.və.tʃəɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The shape of something curved. countable,uncountable
    — Constructional costs are kept to a minimum by the admissibility of heavy grades and sharp curvature.
  2. The extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space. countable,uncountable
    — A turtle drawing an ellipse would have to turn more per distance traveled to get around its “pointy” sides than to get around its flatter top and bottom. This notion of how “pointy something is,” expressed as the ratio of angle turned to distance traveled, is the intrinsic quantity that mathematicians call curvature.
  3. The extent to which a Riemannian manifold is intrinsically curved. countable,uncountable

词形变化

curvatures plural

词汇关系

衍生词
anticurvature center of curvature centre of curvature curvaton Darwinian curvature Gauss curvature Gaussian curvature isocurvature microcurvature miscurvature radius of curvature retrocurvature Sachs' curvature Sachs's curvature supercurvature

词源

From Latin curvare, from Latin curvatura. See also curve. Displaced native Old English ġebīeġednes.
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