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 |
| distribution | the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning |
| distribution | the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer |
distribution channel
channel | a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors, possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores |
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 |
high pitch
high frequency | a pitch that is perceived as above other pitches |
low pitch
low frequency | a pitch that is perceived as below other pitches |
| frequency response | (electronics) a curve representing the output-to-input ratio of a transducer as a function of frequency |
audio
audio frequency | an audible acoustic wave frequency |
| radio frequency | an electromagnetic wave frequency between audio and infrared |
infrared
infrared frequency | the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum, electromagnetic wave frequencies below the visible range, they could sense radiation in the infrared |
extremely low frequency
ELF | below kilohertz |
very low frequency
VLF | tokilohertz |
| low frequency LF | to kilohertz |
medium frequency
MF | to kilohertz |
| high frequency HF | tomegahertz |
very high frequency
VHF | to megahertz |
ultrahigh frequency
UHF | to megahertz |
superhigh frequency
SHF | togigahertz |
extremely high frequency
EHF | to gigahertz |
| curvature curve | the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface |
distribution
dispersion | the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume, worldwide in distribution, the distribution of nerve fibers, in complementary distribution |
complementary distribution
complementation | (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts |
fundamental
fundamental frequency
first harmonic | the lowest tone of a harmonic series |
distribution
statistical distribution | (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence |
| distribution law | (chemistry) the total energy in an assembly of molecules is not distributed equally but is distributed around an average value according to a statistical distribution |
Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution law
Boltzmann distribution law | (physics) a law expressing the distribution of energy among the molecules of a gas in thermal equilibrium |
nonparametric statistic
distribution free statistic | a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn |
| frequency distribution | a distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variable |
normal distribution
Gaussian distribution | a theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance |
| Poisson distribution | a theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large |
normal curve
bell-shaped curve
Gaussian curve
Gaussian shape | a symmetrical curve representing the normal distribution |
sample distribution
sample sampling | items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population |
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 |
binomial distribution
Bernoulli distribution | a theoretical distribution of the number of successes in a finite set of independent trials with a constant probability of success |
frequency band
waveband | a band of adjacent radio frequencies (e.g., assigned for transmitting radio or television signals) |
frequency modulation
FM | modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave |
| distribution list | list of names to whom a communication should be sent |
| distribution agreement | a contract governing the marketing of an item of merchandise |
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) |
radio spectrum
radio-frequency spectrum | the entire spectrum of electromagnetic frequencies used for communications, includes frequencies used for radio and radar and television |
| distribution cost | any cost incurred by a producer or wholesaler or retailer or distributor (as for advertising and shipping etc) |
frequency
absolute frequency | the number of observations in a given statistical category |
| exponential curve | a graph of an exponential function |
frequency
relative frequency | the ratio of the number of observations in a statistical category to the total number of observations |