An instrument with a revolving wheel for measuring a curved line, as on a map.
Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.
This exercise has its value because it illustrates practically that a curved line is one which changes its direction at every point.
Some quick-witted little one will remember at once the surface of the ball and his repeated experiments in dividing it, and will suggest in sufficiently plain words that a curved line might be made from a clay sphere.
This, of course, is bad, and yet the character of a curved line is hardly to be accurately studied in any other way than by observing its relation to straight lines.
There is yet another method of construction useful in noting accurately the shape of a curved line, which is illustrated in Fig.
A curved line of the ship lengthwise, intersecting the timbers at their greatest extent from the middle line of the ship.
In ship-building, is a curved line made by bearding the dead-wood to the shape of the ship's body.
The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or route; as, the arrow descended in a curved line; the place is remote from lines of travel.
Defn: An instrument with a revolving wheel for measuring a curved line, as on a map.
Postage" between the two, in a curved lineof outline capitals, shaded on the background.
The lower corner being formed by a curved line starting in a dot, curving upward and round, and terminating inside the side lines in a large foliation with three balls above it.
A curved line ascending, convex from Canal increasing more and above.
A curved line descending, convex from Canal decreasing more and above.
A curved line ascending, concave from Canal increasing, but more above.
A curved line descending, concave from Canal decreasing, but more above.
Practical solution, when the ground is bounded, in one or more parts, by a curved line.
When we define a curved line as one which is neither straight nor composed of straight lines, we enunciate two negations which can lead to no result, and which have no connection with the peculiar nature of the curved line.
Illustration] The file stands in curved line back of Color-bearer.
If stage is large enough let them stand in straight line across front, otherwise they can stand in curved line.
Draw a curved linefrom A through B and C to D, and from A through E and F to G.
The outer wall is about five feet thick at the base, diminishing slightly towards the top, in a curved line on the exterior, but perpendicular on the inside.
The lower wall is pierced with three entrances to an inclined plane leading in a curved line to the summit, with sentry-boxes at intervals and on the summit.
The hole in the back part of each is drilled in a curved line.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curved line" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
