Curvature - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: curvatureIndicatrix
A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface and used to determine the accidents of curvature of the surface at the point of contact The curve is similar to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to the tangent plane and indefinitely near it It is an ellipse when the curvature is synclastic and an hyperbola when the curvature is anticlastic...
Chicken breasted
Having a narrow projecting chest caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column...
Chordee
A painful erection of the penis usually with downward curvature occurring in gonorrhea...
crook
A bend turn or curve curvature flexure...
Curvature
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...
Geodesy
That branch of applied mathematics which determines by means of observations and measurements the figures and areas of large portions of the earths surface or the general figure and dimenshions of the earth or that branch of surveying in which the curvature of the earth is taken into account as in the surveys of States or of long lines of coast...
VerbarLordosis
A curvature of the spine forwards usually in the lumbar region...
Nyctitropism
The tendency of certain plant organs as leaves to assume special ldquosleepingrdquo positions or make curvatures under the influence of darkness It is well illustrated in the leaflets of clover and other leguminous plants...
Ophthalmometer
An instrument devised by Helmholtz for measuring the size of a reflected image on the convex surface of the cornea and lens of the eye by which their curvature can be ascertained...
Photodynamics
The relation of light to the movements of plants and their organs the study of the phenomena of curvatures induced by the stimulus of light...
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