Usually means: Measure of bending in space.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word curvature:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. curvature: Merriam-Webster
  2. curvature: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curvature: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. curvature: Collins English Dictionary
  5. curvature: Vocabulary.com
  6. Curvature, curvature: Wordnik
  7. curvature: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. curvature: Wiktionary
  9. curvature: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. curvature: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. curvature: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. curvature: Dictionary.com
  13. curvature: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Curvature (disambiguation), Curvature (plane curve), Curvature: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Curvature: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. curvature: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. curvature: Rhymezone
  18. Curvature: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. curvature: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. curvature: FreeDictionary.org
  21. curvature: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. curvature: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. curvature: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Curvature (mathematics), Curvature (plane curve), Curvature (space curve), curvature: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. curvature: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Curvature (mathematics), Curvature (plane curve), Curvature (space curve), curvature: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Curvature: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Curvature: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. curvature, curvature, curvature (plane curve), curvature (space curve): PlanetMath Encyclopedia

(Note: See curvatures as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The shape of something curved.
noun:  (mathematics) The extent to which a subspace is curved within a metric space.
noun:  (differential geometry) The extent to which a Riemannian manifold is intrinsically curved.

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