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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A curve shaped like the capital letter S.
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Examples
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Future events unfold along an s-curve: they take forever to arrive, but when they do, they occur literally overnight.
Steve Leveen: Will Paper Books Go the Way of the Silent Film? Change in the Air at BookExpo America 2010
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Future events unfold along an s-curve: they take forever to arrive, but when they do, they occur literally overnight.
Steve Leveen: Will Paper Books Go the Way of the Silent Film? Change in the Air at BookExpo America 2010
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It's uneven and a bit lumpy but it holds together and is balanced with neither an s-curve or a z-curve.
Plenty of Nothing: 2007
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I saw one on ebay the other day that had continuous gathers along one big s-curve seam from the shoulder to the opposite hip.
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Prior to the war years, the Gibson girl look was all the rage and women wore corsets that forced their figures into the s-curve bosom thrust forward with a very small waist.
Obesity in the past | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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It's uneven and a bit lumpy but it holds together and is balanced with neither an s-curve or a z-curve.
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The corsets that women wore during the Victorian times were bad enough, but the s-curve had to be particularly hellish to wear.
Obesity in the past | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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Also, markets that take off follow s-curve growth rates and it is often impossible to catch up with the pioneers in front of you.
Archive 2006-11-01 Will Price 2006
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Also, markets that take off follow s-curve growth rates and it is often impossible to catch up with the pioneers in front of you.
TechNet Innovation Summit Will Price 2006
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October 26th, 2009 at 12: 58 pm PDT even with the growth, the shape of the curve is very reminiscent of the top of an s-curve as the exponential growth flattens to linear … the growth % flattening … reply
Twitter Finds Growth Abroad With 58.4 Million Global Visitors In September Erick Schonfeld 2005
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