Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Formed, bounded, or characterized by curved lines.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a curved line; consisting of or bounded by curved lines: as, a curvilinear figure.
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- adjective Having
bends ;curved ;curvilineal . - adjective geometry, art Formed by curved lines.
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- adjective characterized by or following a curved line
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845
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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.
India eNews 2008
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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.
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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.
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What, after all, do you call a business whose very name invokes the kind of curvilinear architecture the Jetsons once enjoyed?
Lance Mannion: 2010
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What, after all, do you call a business whose very name invokes the kind of curvilinear architecture the Jetsons once enjoyed?
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Water-filled tubes intersected irregular rooms in a kind of curvilinear logic.
Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984
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The Starck Mobile features a "curvilinear" aluminum flask design and an embedded USB cable about six inches in length.
Macworld 2010
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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.
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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.
Little House, Packed With Design Juliet Chung 2011
skipvia commented on the word curvilinear
One of those words that is almost as long as its definition--a line that curves. Kind of obvious, isn't it?
October 2, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word curvilinear
But oh so much more sonorous.
October 2, 2007