Curve vs. Graph — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Curve and Graph
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Curve
In mathematics, a curve (also called a curved line in older texts) is an object similar to a line, but that does not have to be straight. Intuitively, a curve may be thought of as the trace left by a moving point.
Graph
A diagram that exhibits a relationship, often functional, between two sets of numbers as a set of points having coordinates determined by the relationship. Also called plot.
Curve
A line that deviates from straightness in a smooth, continuous fashion.
Graph
A pictorial device, such as a pie chart or bar graph, used to illustrate quantitative relationships. Also called chart.
Curve
A surface that deviates from planarity in a smooth, continuous fashion.
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Graph
The spelling of a word.
Curve
Something characterized by such a line or surface, especially a rounded line or contour of the human body.
Graph
Any of the possible forms of a grapheme.
Curve
A relatively smooth bend in a road or other course.
Graph
A written character that represents a vowel, consonant, syllable, word, or other expression and that cannot be further analyzed.
Curve
A line representing data on a graph.
Graph
To represent by a graph.
Curve
A trend derived from or as if from such a graph
"Once again, the politicians are behind the curve" (Ted Kennedy).
Graph
To plot (a function) on a graph.
Curve
A graphic representation showing the relative performance of individuals as measured against each other, used especially as a method of grading students in which the assignment of grades is based on predetermined proportions of students.
Graph
A data chart (graphical representation of data) intended to illustrate the relationship between a set (or sets) of numbers (quantities, measurements or indicative numbers) and a reference set, whose elements are indexed to those of the former set(s) and may or may not be numbers.
Curve
The graph of a function on a coordinate plane.
Graph
(mathematics) A set of points constituting a graphical representation of a real function; (formally) a set of tuples , where for a given function . See also Graph of a function Category:en:Curves Category:en:Functions
Curve
The intersection of two surfaces in three dimensions.
Graph
(graph theory) A set of vertices (or nodes) connected together by edges; (formally) an ordered pair of sets , where the elements of are called vertices or nodes and is a set of pairs (called edges) of elements of . See also Graph (discrete mathematics)
Curve
The graph of the solutions to any equation of two variables.
Graph
(topology) A topological space which represents some graph (ordered pair of sets) and which is constructed by representing the vertices as points and the edges as copies of the real interval [0,1] (where, for any given edge, 0 and 1 are identified with the points representing the two vertices) and equipping the result with a particular topology called the graph topology.
Curve
(Baseball) A curve ball.
Graph
A morphism from the domain of to the product of the domain and codomain of , such that the first projection applied to equals the identity of the domain, and the second projection applied to is equal to .
Curve
(Slang) Something that is unexpected or designed to trick or deceive.
Graph
A graphical unit on the token-level, the abstracted fundamental shape of a character or letter as distinct from its ductus (realization in a particular typeface or handwriting on the instance-level) and as distinct by a grapheme on the type-level by not fundamentally distinguishing meaning.
Curve
To move in or take the shape of a curve
The path curves around the lake.
Graph
(transitive) To draw a graph.
Curve
To cause to curve.
Graph
To draw a graph of a function.
Curve
(Baseball) To pitch (a ball) with a curve.
Graph
A curve or surface, the locus of a point whose coördinates are the variables in the equation of the locus; as, a graph of the exponential function.
Curve
To grade (students, for example) on a curve.
Graph
A diagram symbolizing a system of interrelations of variable quantities using points represented by spots, or by lines to represent the relations of continuous variables. More than one set of interrelations may be presented on one graph, in which case the spots or lines are typically distinguishable from each other, as by color, shape, thickness, continuity, etc. A diagram in which relationships between variables are represented by other visual means is sometimes called a graph, as in a bar graph, but may also be called a chart.
Curve
(obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved. Category:en:Curves
A curve line
A curve surface
Graph
A drawing illustrating the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes
Curve
A gentle bend, such as in a road.
You should slow down when approaching a curve.
Graph
Represent by means of a graph;
Chart the data
Curve
A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
She scribbled a curve on the paper.
Graph
Plot upon a graph
Curve
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.
Curve
(analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
Curve
(geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
Curve
(algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
Curve
(topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
Curve
The attractive shape of a woman's body.
Curve
(transitive) To bend; to crook.
To curve a line
To curve a pipe
Curve
(transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
To curve a ball in pitching it
Curve
(intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
The road curves to the right
Curve
(transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
The teacher will curve the test.
Curve
(transitive) (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
I was once curved three times by the same woman.
Curve
Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
Curve
A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
Curve
A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.
Curve
To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.
Curve
To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.
Curve
The trace of a point whose direction of motion changes
Curve
A line on a graph representing data
Curve
A baseball thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approach the batter
Curve
The property possessed by the curving of a line or surface
Curve
Curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
Curve
Turn sharply; change direction abruptly;
The car cut to the left at the intersection
The motorbike veered to the right
Curve
Extend in curves and turns;
The road winds around the lake
Curve
Form an arch or curve;
Her back arches
Her hips curve nicely
Curve
Bend or cause to bend;
He crooked his index finger
The road curved sharply
Curve
Form a curl, curve, or kink;
The cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling
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