Index of English words, starting with "cu"

(1) - Curule (a.) Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right to sit in the curule chair; hence, official.
(2) - Curule (a.) Of or pertaining to a chariot.

(1) - Curvature (n.) 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.
(2) - Curvature (n.) 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.

(1) - Curve (v. i.) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction; as, the road curves to the right.
(2) - Curve (a.) To bend; to crook; as, to curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.
(3) - Curve (a.) A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.
(4) - Curve (a.) A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
(5) - Curve (a.) Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.

(1) - Curved (imp. & p. p.) of Curve