RADIUS OF CURVATURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radius of curvature mean? 

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

1. the radius of the circle of curvature; the absolute value of the reciprocal of the curvature of a curve at a given point

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RADIUS OF CURVATURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The radius of the circle of curvature; the absolute value of the reciprocal of the curvature of a curve at a given point

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

r; radius (the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere)

 Context examples 

These technologies share the concept of scanning an extremely sharp tip (3-50 nm radius of curvature) across the object surface.

(Atomic Resolution Microscopy, NCI Thesaurus)