Curvilinear vs. Curve — What's the Difference?

Formed, bounded, or characterized by curved lines.

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.

Having bends; curved; curvilineal.

A line that deviates from straightness in a smooth, continuous fashion.

Formed by curved lines.

A surface that deviates from planarity in a smooth, continuous fashion.

Characterized by or following a curved line;

Something characterized by such a line or surface, especially a rounded line or contour of the human body.

A relatively smooth bend in a road or other course.

A line representing data on a graph.

A trend derived from or as if from such a graph

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.

The graph of a function on a coordinate plane.

The intersection of two surfaces in three dimensions.

The graph of the solutions to any equation of two variables.

(Baseball) A curve ball.

(Slang) Something that is unexpected or designed to trick or deceive.

To move in or take the shape of a curve

To cause to curve.

(Baseball) To pitch (a ball) with a curve.

To grade (students, for example) on a curve.

(obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved. Category:en:Curves

A gentle bend, such as in a road.

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

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.

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

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

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

(topology) A one-dimensional continuum.

The attractive shape of a woman's body.

(transitive) To bend; to crook.

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

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

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

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

Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.

A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.

A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.

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.

To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.

The trace of a point whose direction of motion changes

A line on a graph representing data

A baseball thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approach the batter

The property possessed by the curving of a line or surface

Curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)

Turn sharply; change direction abruptly;

Extend in curves and turns;

Form an arch or curve;

Bend or cause to bend;

Form a curl, curve, or kink;