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Span is a related term of curve.

As an adjective span

is hairless, glabrous.

As a verb curve is

span

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) spann

Noun

(en noun)

The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.

Hence, a small space or a brief portion of time.

* Alexander Pope

Yet not to earth's contracted span / Thy goodness let me bound.

* Farquhar

Life's but a span ; I'll every inch enjoy.

* 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence .

The unsilent present is a time of evaporating attention spans ,

The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.

The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.

(nautical) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.

(obsolete) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.

(mathematics) the space of all linear combinations of something

Etymology 2

Old English spannan

Verb

(spann)

To traverse the distance between.

The suspension bridge spanned the canyon as tenuously as one could imagine.

To cover or extend over an area or time period.

The parking lot spans three acres.

The novel spans three centuries.

World record! 5 GHz WiFi connection spans 189 miles. [http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/27/world-record-5ghz-wifi-connection-spans-189-miles/]

* Prescott

The rivers were spanned by arches of solid masonry.

To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.

to span''' a space or distance; to '''span a cylinder

* Bible, Isa. xiviii. 13

My right hand hath spanned the heavens.

(mathematics) to generate an entire space by means of linear combinations

(intransitive, US, dated) To be matched, as horses.

To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.

Etymology 3

Verb

(head)

(archaic, nonstandard) (spin)

* '>citation

*:a giant pick-up truck span out of control during a stunt show in a Dutch town, killing three people

Anagrams

* English irregular simple past forms ----

curve

English

Adjective

(obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.

a curve line

a curve surface

Noun

(wikipedia curve) (en noun)

A gentle bend, such as in a road.

You should slow down when approaching a curve .

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

She scribbled a curve on the paper.

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

(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.

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 curve

Verb

(curv)

To bend; to crook.

to curve a line

to curve a pipe

To cause to swerve from a straight course.

to curve a ball in pitching it

To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.

the road curves to the right

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

The teacher will curve the test.