curve
n. 曲线, 弯曲, 曲线球 vt. 弯, 使弯曲 vi. 成曲形
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词形变化
教材释义与例句
曲线；弯曲；曲线球；曲线图表
弯；使弯曲
成曲形
弯曲的；曲线形的
释义与例句
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1.
A gentle bend, such as in a road.
弯子
弯
You should slow down when approaching a curve.
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A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
曲线
She scribbled a curve on the paper.
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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.
The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve.
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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.
A grading system where all raw scores are raised by a set amount of points.
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A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
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A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
曲线
数学 -
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An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
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A one-dimensional continuum.
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The attractive shape of a woman's body.
曲线
非正式
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To bend; to crook.
及物to curve a line
to curve a pipe
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To cause to swerve from a straight course.
及物to curve a ball in pitching it
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To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
不及物the road curves to the right
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To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
及物The teacher will curve the test.
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To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
俚语 及物I was once curved three times by the same woman.
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Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
废旧a curve line
a curve surface
词汇关系
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词源
Attested since the 1690s, from Latin curvus (“bent, curved”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”) + *-wós. Doublet of curb, shrink, carcer, and cancer.
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