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radius of curvature

–noun Mathematics.
the absolute value of the reciprocal of the curvature at a point on a curve.


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1745–55
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radius of curvature

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