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Noun curvature has 3 senses
- curvature - (medicine) a curving or bending; often abnormal; "curvature of the spine"
--1 is a kind of condition, status
- curvature - the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve
--2 is a kind of derived function, derivative, differential coefficient, differential, first derivative
- curvature, curve - the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface
--3 is a kind of shape, form, configuration, contour, conformation
--3 has particulars: curliness; straightness
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