circle of curvature

1. 1.

   the circle that touches a curve (on the concave side) and whose radius is the radius of curvature

   Synonymsosculating circle

   Broadercircle

Questions about circle of curvature

What does circle of curvature mean?

circle of curvature means "the circle that touches a curve (on the concave side) and whose radius is the radius of curvature".

What is another word for circle of curvature?

Close synonyms include osculating circle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is circle of curvature a common word?

circle of curvature is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.