curvature

Example Sentences

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If this happens, spacetime curvature is no longer perfectly defined at every point.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 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

It describes the curvature of the quantum space through which electrons travel and influences many microscopic properties of materials.

From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2026

That distortion—the curvature caused by objects sitting on the sheet—is gravity.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife