Curvilinear

Word CURVILINEAR
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Definitions and meanings of "Curvilinear"

What do we mean by curvilinear?

Formed, bounded, or characterized by curved lines. adjective

Having a curved line; consisting of or bounded by curved lines: as, a curvilinear figure.

Having bends; curved; curvilineal. adjective

Formed by curved lines. adjective

Characterized by or following a curved line adjective

(of a line) Having bends; curved; curvilineal.

Formed by curved lines.

A line which is in fact not linear, but curved. This word is often used by Craig Scott to explain formations to the South Portland Marching Band. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Curvilinear

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The word "curvilinear" in example sentences

On this account they are generally grown in curvilinear houses, that is, houses that have glass on all sides, like that in the garden of the London Horticultural Society at Turnham Green. ❋ Jane (1845)

A more advanced form of EUS, called curvilinear EUS, allows doctors to operate within the lumen of the gut while at the same time detect, biopsy and treat lesions and tumors that lie outside the intestinal wall. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A more advanced version, called curvilinear EUS, allows doctors to operate within the gut while at the same time detect, biopsy and treat lesions and tumours that lie outside the intestinal wall. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What, after all, do you call a business whose very name invokes the kind of curvilinear architecture the Jetsons once enjoyed? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Water-filled tubes intersected irregular rooms in a kind of curvilinear logic. ❋ Benford, Gregory, 1941- (1984)

The Starck Mobile features a "curvilinear" aluminum flask design and an embedded USB cable about six inches in length. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Julia prattles on about "curvilinear" lines in the architecture, which Leo enourages and Izzy look at Leo strangely (but dissimulated) because we can see she doesn't even think that Leo even knows what "curvilinear" means. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The design's oppressive squares give no cultural hint of curvilinear Russian culture, nor do they evoke the circles of gossip swirling round Boris. ❋ Debra Levine (2010)

Lineads are hand-drawn gestural marks and curvilinear lines; geomes are solid geometric shapes. ❋ Bill Bush (2011)

When the couple married 12 years ago, Ms. Lavin assumed Mr. Lynn, an early innovator of computer-modeling technology in architecture who is also known for his curvilinear, maximalist designs, would want to create their home. ❋ Juliet Chung (2011)

Noah Webb for The Wall Street Journal When the couple married 12 years ago, Ms. Lavin assumed Mr. Lynn, an early innovator of computer-modeling technology in architecture who is also known for his curvilinear, maximalist designs, would want to create their home. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Collaborating with Nagata Acoustics, which also worked on the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Mr. Gehry draped the ceiling in curvilinear acoustical sails ready to catch a varied blast of projections, from commissioned videos and theatrical light shows to master-class lectures. ❋ Julie V. Iovine (2011)

"[You all] need to [pay attention] in order to make these nice curvilinear [sets] work right." ❋ Liquidsparanois (2006)

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