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Curve vs. Graph — What's the Difference?

Curve vs. Graph — What's the Difference?

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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 (x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_m, y)\in\R^{m+1}, where y=f(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_m) for a given function f: \R^m\rightarrow\R. 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 (V,E), where the elements of V are called vertices or nodes and E is a set of pairs (called edges) of elements of V. 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 \Gamma_f from the domain of f to the product of the domain and codomain of f, such that the first projection applied to \Gamma_f equals the identity of the domain, and the second projection applied to \Gamma_f is equal to f.

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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