CENTER OF CURVATURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does center of curvature mean? 

• CENTER OF CURVATURE (noun)
  The noun CENTER OF CURVATURE has 1 sense:

1. the center of the circle of curvature

  Familiarity information: CENTER OF CURVATURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENTER OF CURVATURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The center of the circle of curvature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

center of curvature; centre of curvature

Hypernyms ("center of curvature" is a kind of...):

center; centre; midpoint (a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure)