CLOSED CURVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does closed curve mean? 

• CLOSED CURVE (noun)
  The noun CLOSED CURVE has 1 sense:

1. a curve (such as a circle) having no endpoints

  Familiarity information: CLOSED CURVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOSED CURVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A curve (such as a circle) having no endpoints

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("closed curve" is a kind of...):

curve; curved shape (the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "closed curve"):

Jordan curve; simple closed curve (a closed curve that does not intersect itself)

 Context examples 

The length of the closed curve of a circle; the size of something as given by the distance around it.

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