Usually means: Contours deviating from straight lines.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word curves:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. curves: Merriam-Webster
  2. curves: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curves: Collins English Dictionary
  4. curves: Vocabulary.com
  5. Curve's, Curves, curve's, curves: Wordnik
  6. curves: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. curves: Wiktionary
  8. curves: Dictionary.com
  9. curves: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. curves: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. curves: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. curves: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. curves: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. curves: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Curves: Nikonians Photo Glossary

(Note: See curve as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (curve)

adjective:  (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
noun:  A gentle bend, such as in a road.
noun:  A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
noun:  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.
noun:  (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
noun:  (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
noun:  (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
noun:  (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
noun:  (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
verb:  (transitive) To bend; to crook.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
verb:  (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
verb:  (transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
verb:  (transitive) (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
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