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CURVILINEAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does curvilinear mean?
• CURVILINEAR (adjective)
The adjective CURVILINEAR has 1 sense:
1. characterized by or following a curved line
Familiarity information: CURVILINEAR used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by or following a curved line
Synonyms:
curvilineal; curvilinear
Context example:
curvilinear motion
Similar:
curved; curving (having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend)
Context examples
Moreover, the authors maintain that the data revealed the existence of a curvilinear relationship between prosocial humour and personality dimensions such as kindness and honesty.
(Self-defeating humour promotes psychological well-being, University of Granada)
A malignant fibroblastic sarcoma with variably myxoid stroma, pleomorphism and a distinctively curvilinear vascular pattern.
(Myxofibrosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A distinctive variant of fibrosarcoma, characterized by an admixture of heavily collagenized and myxoid zones, deceptively bland spindled cells with a whorling growth pattern and arcades of curvilinear blood vessels.
(Low Grade Fibromyxoid Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
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