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Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  Curve(adj) bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface. 2  Curve(adj) a bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal. 3  Curve(adj) a line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line.
Various disciplines within mathematics have given the term different meanings depending on the area of study, so the precise meaning depends on context. However, many of these meanings are special instances of the definition which follows. A curve is a topological space which is locally homeomorphic to a line. In everyday language, this means that a curve is a set of points which, near each of its points, looks like a line, up to a deformation. A simple example of a curve is the parabola, shown to the right.