Definition of "curve"

(obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.

A gentle bend, such as in a road.  examples

A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.  examples

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.  examples

(analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.  examples

(geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.  examples

(algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.  examples

(topology) A one-dimensional continuum.

(informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.  examples

(transitive) To bend; to crook.  examples

(transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.  examples

(intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.  examples

(transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).  examples

(transitive) (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.  examples