"Curve" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 曲线 | qū xiàn | curve / curved line / indirect / in a roundabout way |  |
| 弧形 | hú xíng | curve / arc / arch |  |
| 弧度 | hú dù | radian / arc / curve / curvature | |
| 弯子 | wān zi | bend / turn / curve | |
| 弯角 | wān jiǎo | corner / bend / curve | |
| 弯曲 | wān qū | to bend / to curve around / curved / crooked / to wind / to warp | |
| 弯道 | wān dào | winding road / road curve | |
| 拐弯 | guǎi wān | to go round a curve / to turn a corner / fig. a new direction | |
| 拐点 | guǎi diǎn | turning point / breaking point / inflexion point (math., a point of a curve at which the curvature changes sign) | |
| 弹道 | dàn dào | trajectory (of a projectile) / ballistic curve | |
| 迴 |  huí | to curve / to return / to revolve | |
| 二次曲线 | èr cì qū xiàn | quadratic curve (geometry) / conic | |
| 平面曲线 | píng miàn qū xiàn | (math.) plane curve | |
| 三次曲线 | sān cì qū xiàn | cubic curve (geometry) | |
| 椭圆曲线 | tuǒ yuán qū xiàn | (math.) elliptic curve | |
| 渨 | wēi | cove / bay / a bend or nook in the hills / the curve of a bow | |
| 二次曲 | èr cì qū | quadratic curve / conic section (geometry) | |
| 代数曲线 | dài shù qū xiàn | algebraic curve | |
| 凸线 | tū xiàn | convex curve | |
| 弦切角 | xián qiē jiǎo | chord angle (i.e. angle a chord of a curve makes to the tangent) | |
| 弧线长 | hú xiàn cháng | arc length / length of a curve segment | |
| 弧长 | hú cháng | arc length (the length of a curve segment) | |
| 曲綫 | qū xiàn | variant of 曲線|曲线, curve / curved line | |
| 曲线拟合 | qū xiàn nǐ hé | curve fitting | |
| 短程线 | duǎn chéng xiàn | a geodesic (curve) / a shortest curve | |
| 等熵线 | děng shāng xiàn | isentropic curve (physics}) | |
| 时距曲线 | time-distance curve / T-X curve / traveltime curve / hodochrone (rare) / hodograph (rare) | | |
| 校准曲线 | calibration curve | | |
| 剂量效应曲线 | dose-effect curve | | |
| 哈伯特曲线 | Hubbert curve | | |
| 地势曲线 | hypsometric curve | | |
| 雨强-历时-频率曲线 | Intensity Duration Frequency curve / IDF curve | | |
| IDF曲线 | Intensity Duration Frequency curve / IDF curve | | |
| 学习曲线 | learning curve | | |
| 覆盖曲线 | coverage curve | | |
| 速深曲线 | velocity-depth curve / velocity curve | | |
| 速度曲线 | velocity-depth curve / velocity curve | | |
| 钟形曲线 | bell curve | | |
| 正态曲线 | bell curve | | |
| 曲线交汇点 | curve crossing point / crossing point | | |
| 时深曲线 | time-depth curve / time-depth plot | | |
| 回归曲线 | regression curve | | |
| 渔获曲线 | catch curve | | |
| 补充量曲线 | recruitment curve / reproduction curve | | |
| 学步 | xué bù | to learn to walk / (fig.) to learn sth, making unsteady progress / to get started on the learning curve | |
