[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

curvature \cur"vature\ k?r"v?-t?r; 135, n. l. curvatura. see
   curvate.
   1. the act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved;
      a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or
      surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve.
      --cowper.
      1913 webster

            the elegant curvature of their fronds. --darwin.
      1913 webster

   2. math. the amount of degree of bending of a mathematical
      curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a
      tangent drawn to the curve at that point.
      1913 webster

   aberrancy of curvature geom., the deviation of a curve
      from a circular form.

   absolute curvature. see under absolute.

   angle of curvature geom., one that expresses the amount
      of curvature of a curve.

   chord of curvature. see under chord.

   circle of curvature. see osculating circle of a curve,
      under circle.

   curvature of the spine med., an abnormal curving of the
      spine, especially in a lateral direction.

   radius of curvature, the radius of the circle of curvature,
      or osculatory circle, at any point of a curve.
      1913 webster
see also:
curvate aberrancy of curvature absolute curvature absolute angle of curvature chord of curvature 
chord circle of curvature osculating circle of a curve circle curvature of the spine 
radius of curvature 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

absolute \ab"solute\, a. l. absolutus, p. p. of absolvere: cf.
   f. absolu. see absolve.
   1. loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled;
      unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority,
      monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command;
      absolute power; an absolute monarch.
      1913 webster

   2. complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as,
      absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
      1913 webster

            so absolute she seems,
            and in herself complete.              --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. viewed apart from modifying influences or without
      comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to
      relative and comparative; as, absolute motion;
      absolute time or space.
      1913 webster

   note: absolute rights and duties are such as pertain to man
         in a state of nature as contradistinguished from
         relative rights and duties, or such as pertain to him
         in his social relations.
         1913 webster

   4. loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other
      being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
      1913 webster

   note: in this sense god is called the absolute by the theist.
         the term is also applied by the pantheist to the
         universe, or the total of all existence, as only
         capable of relations in its parts to each other and to
         the whole, and as dependent for its existence and its
         phenomena on its mutually depending forces and their
         laws.
         1913 webster

   5. capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone;
      unconditioned; non-relative.
      1913 webster

   note: it is in dispute among philosopher whether the term, in
         this sense, is not applied to a mere logical fiction or
         abstraction, or whether the absolute, as thus defined,
         can be known, as a reality, by the human intellect.
         1913 webster

               to cusa we can indeed articulately trace, word
               and thing, the recent philosophy of the absolute.
                                                  --sir w.
                                                  hamilton.
         1913 webster

   6. positive; clear; certain; not doubtful. r.
      1913 webster

            i am absolute 't was very cloten.     --shak.
      1913 webster

   7. authoritative; peremptory. r.
      1913 webster

            the peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head,
            with absolute forefinger, brown and ringed. --mrs.
                                                  browning.
      1913 webster

   8. chem. pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
      1913 webster

   9. gram. not immediately dependent on the other parts of
      the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. see
      ablative absolute, under ablative.
      1913 webster

   absolute curvature geom., that curvature of a curve of
      double curvature, which is measured in the osculating
      plane of the curve.

   absolute equation astron., the sum of the optic and
      eccentric equations.

   absolute space physics, space considered without relation
      to material limits or objects.

   absolute terms. alg., such as are known, or which do not
      contain the unknown quantity. --davies  peck.

   absolute temperature physics, the temperature as measured
      on a scale determined by certain general thermo-dynamic
      principles, and reckoned from the absolute zero.

   absolute zero physics, the be ginning, or zero point, in
      the scale of absolute temperature. it is equivalent to
      -273deg centigrade or -459.4deg fahrenheit.
      1913 webster

   syn: positive; peremptory; certain; unconditional; unlimited;
        unrestricted; unqualified; arbitrary; despotic;
        autocratic.
        1913 webster
see also:
absolve relative comparative ablative absolute ablative absolute curvature 
absolute equation absolute space absolute terms absolute temperature absolute zero 

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