curve curve ball breaking ball bender | a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter |
development | act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining, he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency, they funded research and development |
product development | improving an existing product or developing new kinds of products |
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | the position of the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the position of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was created in |
exploitation development | the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful, the development of Alaskan resources, the exploitation of copper deposits |
land development | making an area of land more useful |
water development water project water program | making an area of water more useful |
bend curve | curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) |
blind curve blind bend | a curve or bend in the road that you cannot see around as you are driving |
ribbon development | building complex in a continuous row along a road |
curvature curve | the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface |
normal curve bell-shaped curve Gaussian curve Gaussian shape | a symmetrical curve representing the normal distribution |
regression line regression curve | a smooth curve fitted to the set of paired data in regression analysis, for linear regression the curve is a straight line |
frequencyesponse curve frequencyesponse characteristic | (electronics) a graph of frequency response with signal amplitude or gain plotted against frequency |
curve | a line on a graph representing data |
characteristic curve characterisic function | (electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters |
Laffer curve | a graph purporting to show the relation between tax rates and government income, income increases as tax rates increase up to an optimum beyond which income declines |
learning curve | a graph showing the rate of learning (especially a graph showing the amount recalled as a function of the number of attempts to recall) |
development | (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated |
development | a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation, recent developments in Iraq, what a revolting development! |
Department of Housing and Urban Development Housing and Urban Development HUD | the United States federal department that administers federal programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal, created in |
Social Development Commission | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with social development |
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development World Bank IBRD | a United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments |
International Development Association IDA | an agency of the United Nations affiliated with the World Bank |
Advanced Research and Development Activity ARDA | an agency of the Intelligence Community that conducts advanced research and development related to information technology |
development | a district that has been developed to serve some purpose, such land is practical for small park developments |
housing development | a residential area of similar dwellings built by property developers and usually under a single management, they live in the new housing development |
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was Robert C. Weaver who was appointed by Johnson |
development developing | processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible, the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours |
development evolution | a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage), the development of his ideas took many years, the evolution of Greek civilization, the slow development of her skill as a writer |
growth growing maturation development ontogeny ontogenesis | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically, a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level, he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children |
psychomotor development | progressive acquisition of skills involving both mental and motor activities |
psychosexual development | (psychoanalysis) the process during which personality and sexual behavior mature through a series of stages: first oral stage and then anal stage and then phallic stage and then latency stage and finally genital stage |
exponential curve | a graph of an exponential function |
curve curved shape | the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes |
closed curve | a curve (such as a circle) having no endpoints |
simple closed curve Jordan curve | a closed curve that does not intersect itself |
sine curve sinusoid | the curve of ysin x |
development | a state in which things are improving, the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess), after he saw the latest development he changed his mind and became a supporter, in chess your should take care of your development before moving your queen |
arrested development fixation infantile fixation regression | an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely |
curl curve kink | form a curl, curve, or kink, the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling |
swerve sheer curve trend veer slue slew cut | turn sharply, change direction abruptly, The car cut to the left at the intersection, The motorbike veered to the right |
crook curve | bend or cause to bend, He crooked his index finger, the road curved sharply |
arch curve arc | form an arch or curve, her back arches, her hips curve nicely |
wind twist curve | extend in curves and turns, The road winds around the lake, the path twisted through the forest |