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 |
probability | the quality of being probable, a probable event or the most probable event, for a while mutiny seemed a probability, going by past experience there was a high probability that the visitors were lost |
curvature curve | the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface |
probability chance | a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur, a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible, the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is . |
conditional probability contingent probability | the probability that an event will occur given that one or more other events have occurred |
joint probability | the probability of two events occurring together |
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 |
probability theory theory of probability | the branch of applied mathematics that deals with probabilities |
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) |
probability theorist | a mathematician who specializes in probability theory |
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 |
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 |
probably likely in all likelihood in all probability belike | with considerable certainty, without much doubt, He is probably out of the country, in all likelihood we are headed for war |