Definition: Curvature (Meaning of Curvature)

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Definition: The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve.

Definition: The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point.

Definition: the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface

Definition: the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve

Definition: (medicine) a curving or bending; often abnormal; "curvature of the spine"