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 |
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 |
curvature curve | the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface |
ideal | the idea of something that is perfect, something that one hopes to attain |
paragon idol perfection beau ideal | an ideal instance, a perfect embodiment of a concept |
ego ideal | (psychoanalysis) the part of the ego that contains an ideal of personal excellence toward which a person strives |
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 |
graph graphical record | a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes |
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 |
bar chart bar graph | a chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities |
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) |
Carnot cycle Carnot's ideal cycle | a cycle (of expansion and compression) of an idealized reversible heat engine that does work without loss of heat |
ideal paragon nonpareil saint apotheosis nonesuch nonsuch | model of excellence or perfection of a kind, one having no equal |
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 |
regular polyhedron regular convex solid regular convex polyhedron Platonic body Platonic solid ideal solid | any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent |
graph paper | paper that has lines to permit drawing graphs |
ideal gas perfect gas | a hypothetical gas with molecules of negligible size that exert no intermolecular forces |
curl curve kink | form a curl, curve, or kink, the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling |
graph chart | represent by means of a graph, chart the data |
graph | plot upon a graph |
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 |
ideal | constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or mental image or conception, a poem or essay may be typical of its period in idea or ideal content |
ideal | conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence, embodying an ideal |
ideal idealistic | of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas |