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 |
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 |
noun phrase nominal phrase nominal | a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb |
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) |
front man front figurehead nominal head straw man strawman | a person used as a cover for some questionable activity |
nominal damages | (law) a trivial sum (usually $.) awarded as recognition that a legal injury was sustained (as for technical violations of a contract) |
par value face value nominal value | the value of a security that is set by the company issuing it, unrelated to market value |
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 |
nominal aphasia anomic aphasia anomia amnesic aphasia amnestic aphasia | inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects |
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 |
nominal titular | existing in name only, the nominal (or titular) head of his party |
nominative nominal | named, bearing the name of a specific person, nominative shares of stock |
nominal token(a) tokenish | insignificantly small, a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal), the fee was nominal, a token gesture of resistance, a toknenish gesture |
nominal | of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation, the nominal GDP, nominal interest rates |
nominal | pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun, nominal phrase, noun phrase |
nominal | relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name, the Russian system of nominal brevity, a nominal lists of priests, taxable males as revealed by the nominal rolls |