Snowslide vs Curve - What's the difference?
snowslide | curve |
(obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
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.
(informal, usually in plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
To bend; to crook.
To cause to swerve from a straight course.
To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
As nouns the difference between snowslide and curve
is that snowslide is an avalanche of snow while curve is a gentle bend, such as in a road.As an adjective curve is
(obsolete) bent without angles; crooked; curved.As a verb curve is
to bend; to crook.curve
English
Adjective
- a curve line
- a curve surface
Noun
(wikipedia curve) (en noun)- You should slow down when approaching a curve .
- She scribbled a curve on the paper.
- The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve
Derived terms
* algebraic curve * * closed curve * cosine curve * curvaceous * curvy * dragon curve * elliptic curve * learning curve * Lissajous curve * Jordan curve * multicurve * nonsimple curve * open curve * pedal curve * plane curve * pursuit curve * simple curve * sine curve * space curve * spherical curveVerb
(curv)- to curve a line
- to curve a pipe
- to curve a ball in pitching it
- the road curves to the right
- The teacher will curve the test.