radius of curvature

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

   Broaderradius

Questions about radius of curvature

What does radius of curvature mean?

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

Is radius of curvature a common word?

radius 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.