curvature of the spine. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
As soon as world lines start to curve, you have to measure their curvature, that is "geodesic curvature". From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
To make the notion of curvature pathology more precise, we will use the manifestly physical idea of tidal force. From Wordnik.com. [Singularities and Black Holes] Reference
Spacetime in general relativity is instead said to have intrinsic curvature, which is mathematically quite simple but very difficult to visualize. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The exterior is as pointy as the market demands, but the arch over the entrance is a nice touch, and the door is cut to match its curvature, which is even nicer. From Wordnik.com. [dustbury.com » Saturday spottings (she said)] Reference
For the identical stimulus of gravity produces one kind of curvature in the root and the very opposite in the shoot. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference
In addition, this mantra could also be used for healing any spinal problem, such as curvature of the spine or curved limbs. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
Briefly, in Heaviside's vector mathematics, the abstract vector space in which the vectors exist has no stress nor consequent "curvature" in it. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
Camber -- The camber of the ribs is the amount of curvature which is imparted to them in the same way that a motor car spring or a road has a camber or curvature. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
We have often seen cases of humpback, but this was the only case of this kind of curvature we had met with. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864] Reference
Double-bubble conjecture (a nice result, easy to state and wave hands about "curvature", and with a connection to CP!). From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Another way of expressing it is to say that there is an inevitable circularity, or "curvature" to our worldly existence. From Wordnik.com. [One Cosmos] Reference
The curvature of this strip is three quarters of a hole. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
The most frequent variety of it is the lateral curvature. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
The invention of chairs has led to spinal curvature, etc., etc. From Wordnik.com. [Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation] Reference
Like a small moon it edged up the distant curvature of the hull. From Wordnik.com. [The Memory of Mars] Reference
Maybe he had put too much planet curvature between Astro and himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Quantum Jump] Reference
Rickets, during infancy, is the most common cause of spinal curvature. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
Light, for example, induces sometimes positive curvature, sometimes negative. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference
The curvature is best got by striking between steel dies (see Figs. 39 and 40). From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
After designing the scutula, let its outline be worked down to give it a gentle curvature. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
The curvature of the eyeball in the astigmatic eye is greater in one meridian than in the opposite. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
The curvature of the fencing resembled wide open arms, embracing me like a lost child, come home. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrosia] Reference
Col. Mangin's projector consists of a glass mirror with double curvature, silvered upon its convex face. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
As a rule, no colour exists in nature without gradation, which is to colours what curvature is to lines. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Two prosthetic hips, severe spinal curvature, and ankles as thin as my wrists do not a perambulator make. From Wordnik.com. [The Dying Tradition] Reference
The ride was smooth and quiet, and the view was special -- the Earth's curvature was clear from this height. From Wordnik.com. [Flying The 'Big Bad Dog'] Reference
In the ox and ram, small calculi collect in the S-shaped curvature of the urethra, or at its terminal extremity. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
The greater the curvature, the greater the difference in pressure at the belly and the back, and the greater the lift. From Wordnik.com. [How Do They Defy Gravity?] Reference
The country was a rolling prairie, and, from the higher ground, the vision was obstructed only by the earth's curvature. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Gray skies turned scarlet red momentarily as the Sun disappeared beyond the Earth's curvature, leaving darkness in its wake. From Wordnik.com. [Unoriginal Sin - IV] Reference
I know you are better and that means, of course, that the supposititious curvature of your limbs, never real, is less apparent. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
Penrose related it to Einstein's general relativity in which matter is equivalent to curvature in underlying spacetime geometry. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: Can Science Explain the Soul?] Reference
The desired radius of curvature is easily attained by cutting out templates from sheet zinc and using them to gauge the turning. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
Hence, in full-grown trees of the Stone pine there is often a similar curvature at the base of the trunk to that of the pinaster. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
It is moist from our earlier walk and delicate beads of sweat roll down the back of my neck into the curvature of the small of my back. From Wordnik.com. [Unknown to Me] Reference
The sound rose up, from the instrument, the waves surrounding the locus of origination and swirling around the curvature of the ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [Sanctuary] Reference
Kaplicky says its unusual curvature is a reference to the city's baroque buildings, and argues that "it would be a huge mistake to turn Prague into a museum.". From Wordnik.com. [The Shock Of The New] Reference
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