curve
A gentle bend, such as in a road.
Example
“You should slow down when approaching a curve.”
Other meanings
A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
“She scribbled a curve on the paper.”
A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
“The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve.”
Word history
From Latin "curvus" (bent, curved).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “curve” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.