All curvation synonyms

noun curvation

• curlicue — Curlicues are decorative twists and curls, usually carved or made with a pen.
• festoon — a string or chain of flowers, foliage, ribbon, etc., suspended in a curve between two points.
• hairpin — a slender U -shaped piece of wire, shell, etc., used by women to fasten up the hair or hold a headdress.
• helix — a spiral.
• horseshoe — a U -shaped metal plate, plain or with calks, nailed to a horse's hoof to protect it from being injured by hard or rough surfaces.
• hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
• incurvation — curved, especially inward.
• incurvate — curved, especially inward.
• meniscus — a crescent or a crescent-shaped body.
• ogee — a double curve, resembling the letter S, formed by the union of a concave and a convex line.
• parabola — a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone with a plane parallel to a generator of the cone; the set of points in a plane that are equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point in the same plane or in a parallel plane. Equation: y 2 = 2 px or x 2 = 2 py.
• quirk — a peculiarity of action, behavior, or personality; mannerism: He is full of strange quirks.
• sinuosity — Often, sinuosities. a curve, bend, or turn: a sinuosity of the road.
• sweep — to move or remove (dust, dirt, etc.) with or as if with a broom, brush, or the like.
• swerve — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
• vault — the act of vaulting.
• whorl — a circular arrangement of like parts, as leaves or flowers, around a point on an axis; verticil.
• rondure — a circle or sphere.
• globe — the planet Earth (usually preceded by the).
• band — A band is a small group of musicians who play popular music such as jazz, rock, or pop.
• circlet — a small circle or ring, esp a circular ornament worn on the head
• disc — any thin, flat, circular plate or object.
• disk — a phonograph record.
• gyre — a ring or circle.
• hoop — a circular band or ring of metal, wood, or other stiff material.
• orb — Object Request Broker
• orbit — the curved path, usually elliptical, described by a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body, as the sun.
• ring — a male given name.
• ringlet — a curled lock of hair.
• sphere — Geometry. a solid geometric figure generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter; a round body whose surface is at all points equidistant from the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 + z 2 = r 2 . the surface of such a figure; a spherical surface.
• wheel — a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.