curvature

Other forms of curvature

plural

curvatures·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about curvature

What does curvature mean?

curvature means "(medicine) a curving or bending; often abnormal". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in curvature?

curvature has 3 syllables: cur-va-ture. The stress falls on "cur". In IPA it is /ˈkɝvətʃɚ/.

What is another word for curvature?

Close synonyms include curve. 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 curvature a common word?

curvature is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.