• Degree of curve or degree of curvature is a measure of curvature of a circular arc used in civil engineering for its easy use in layout surveying. The...
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  • In mathematics, curvature is any of several strongly related concepts in geometry that intuitively measure the amount by which a curve deviates from being...
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    differential geometry, the radius of curvature, R, is the reciprocal of the curvature. For a curve, it equals the radius of the circular arc which best approximates...
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  • alcohol content of a liquid, ranging from 0° to 175° in the UK, and from 0° to 200° in the U.S. Degree of curvature, a unit of curvature measurement, used...
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    1–20% of men. The condition becomes more common with age. A certain degree of curvature of the penis is considered normal, as many people are born with this...
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  • the stomach Figure of the Earth, curvature of the Earth Degree of curvature, degree of curvature used in civil engineering Curvature (2017 American film)...
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    center to each of the chord's end points. The angle between the radii lines is the degree of curvature. The degree of curvature is inverse of radius. The...
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    Kyphosis (category Congenital disorders of musculoskeletal system)
    excessive convex curvature of the spine as it occurs in the thoracic and sacral regions. Abnormal inward concave lordotic curving of the cervical and...
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    Petersburg Museum of Artillery. Compass Degree of curvature Degrees per second Geographic coordinate system Gradian Meridian arc Square degree Square minute...
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    Clinodactyly (category Congenital disorders of musculoskeletal system)
    Clinodactyly is a medical term describing the curvature of a digit (a finger or toe) in the plane of the palm, most commonly the fifth finger (the "little...
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  • generally differ in length, degree of curvature, and how they were worn when sheathed, the latter depending on the location of the mei (銘), or signature...
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  • geometry, the Ricci curvature tensor, named after Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, is a geometric object which is determined by a choice of Riemannian or pseudo-Riemannian...
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    when light waves reflect from the flat surface of a mirror, those waves retain the same degree of curvature and vergence, in an equal yet opposite direction...
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    assess differences in degree of curvature of the alveolar crest, two-dimensional and three-dimensional surface area, and slope of the alveolar crest. Finite...
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    and measure the Earth's radius involve either the spheroid's radius of curvature or the actual topography. A few definitions yield values outside the...
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    locomotives Degree of curvature, civil engineering Lateral motion device Longest trains Matheran Hill Railway Radius Radius of curvature (applications)...
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    Chordee (redirect from Penile curvature)
    condition in which the head of the penis curves downward or upward, at the junction of the head and shaft of the penis. The curvature is usually most obvious...
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  • Institute of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE) Association of American Railroads Exsecant Degree of curvature List of engineering topics List of engineers...
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    opens downwards. The coefficient a controls the degree of curvature of the graph; a larger magnitude of a gives the graph a more closed (sharply curved)...
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  • to: Draft (hull), the distance from waterline to keel of a vessel Draft (sail), degree of curvature in a sail Air draft, distance from waterline to the...
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  • higher-order terms) of the modeling function. Geometrically, the model is no longer flat but curved, and the degree of curvature is called the convexity...
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  • straight lines, although some variations use higher degree polynomials depending on the degree of curvature desired in the line. Trend lines are sometimes...
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  • Membrane curvature is the geometrical measure or characterization of the curvature of membranes. The membranes can be naturally occurring or man-made (synthetic)...
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  • way of confirming that Earth's surface is locally convex: If the degree of curvature is determined to be the same everywhere on Earth's surface, and that...
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    Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press, 2001 [1994] The Law of Sines at cut-the-knot Degree of Curvature Finding the Sine of 1 Degree Generalized law of sines...
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    Edestus (category Pennsylvanian fish of North America)
    Edestus to sometimes be described as the "scissor tooth shark". The degree of curvature in the teeth brackets, along with size, are distinct in each species...
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    which correspond to the curvatures of the vertebral column. The articulating vertebrae are named according to their region of the spine. Vertebrae in...
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    Whitney–Graustein theorem, the total curvature is invariant under a regular homotopy of a curve: it is the degree of the Gauss map. However, it is not invariant...
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    light sources produce some degree of divergence, as the waves exiting these sources always have some degree of curvature. At the proper distance, these...
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    Sérsic profile (category Equations of astronomy)
    called the "Sérsic index," controls the degree of curvature of the profile (see figure). The smaller the value of n {\displaystyle n} , the less centrally...
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