curvature
The shape of something curved.
Other meanings
The extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space.
The extent to which a Riemannian manifold is intrinsically curved.
Related words
- anticurvature
- curvaton
- isocurvature
- microcurvature
- miscurvature
- retrocurvature
- supercurvature
- center of curvature
- centre of curvature
- Darwinian curvature
- Gauss curvature
- Gaussian curvature
Word history
From Latin "curvatura".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “curvature” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.