incurvation
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
incurvation (countable and uncountable, plural incurvations)
- The act of acquiring or being given a curved form; an instance of curving or bending.
- 1831, David Brewster, Memoirs of the Life of Sir I. Newton, published 1855, I. vii. 152:
- The incurvation or bending of a ray of light, incident on such a surface.
- The state of being curved or bent; any curved shape or formation; curvature; a curve; a bend.
- A curving inwards; the condition of being curved inwards.
- (obsolete) Bowing in reverence or worship.
References[edit]
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “incurvation”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
incurvation f (plural incurvations)
Further reading[edit]
- “incurvation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.