Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being curvilinear, or of consisting in curved lines.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.
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- noun The state or condition of being
curvilinear .
Etymologies
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Examples
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We suspected that most people would not spontaneously think in terms of this curvilinearity and would, in fact, think that fuel consumption decreases as a linear function of MPG.
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He – and his celebration of curvilinearity one of the faultlines in 20th century art – remain top in my design canon.
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He – and his celebration of curvilinearity one of the faultlines in 20th century art – remain top in my design canon.
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We suspected that most people would not spontaneously think in terms of this curvilinearity and would, in fact, think that fuel consumption decreases as a linear function of MPG.
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He humps himself over the open volume and begins to display that unerring curvilinearity of the spine that compels his mother to study braces and to fear that he will develop consumption.
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