curvature
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Mean curvature captures how the surface bends in space, indicating whether it curves inward or outward and by how much.
From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026
The website for the bridge project says the bridge tower shape “reflects the curvature of a hockey stick in a slap shot.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
Part of the problem was there was no camera directly on the line to show the curvature of the ball relative to the line.
From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026
In the High North, satellites orbiting the equator can often be obscured by the curvature of the Earth, meaning fewer visible satellites than elsewhere on the planet.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025
In an unobstructed sky the clouds seem more massive, sometimes grandly reflecting the earth’s curvature on their concave undersides.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing curvature
Space Science (Astronomy) - Middle School
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