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Definitions: INCURVATION |
INCURVATIONNoun1. The act of bowing, or bending the body, in respect or reverence. 2. The state of being bent or curved; curvature. 3. The act of bending, or curving. |
Etymology: Incurvation \In`cur*va"tion\, noun. [Latin expression incurvatio: compare to the French expression incurvation.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Curvature | Curvature, curvity, curvation; incurvature, incurvity; incurvation; bend; flexure, flexion, flection; conflexure; crook, hook, bought, bending; deflection, deflexion; inflection, inflexion; concameration; arcuation, devexity, turn, deviation, detour, sweep; curl, curling; bough; recurvity, recurvation; sinuosity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: INCURVATION |
| English words defined with "INCURVATION": Arcuation ♦ Devexity ♦ Hookedness ♦ Incurvity. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "INCURVATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përkulje (bend, Bob, bow, crouch, curtsey, curtsy, curvature, droop, flection, flex, flexion, flexure, incurvature, inflection, reverence, sag, stoop, warp), lakim (curvature, declension, declination, flexure, inflection, inflexion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кривина (camber, curvature), извивка (bend, convolution, crook, curve, flection, flexion, fold, indentation, kink, return, sinuosity, sweep, tortuousity, twine, twist, wave, wind, winding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ohnutí (flection, flex, flexion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | incurvation des instruments de Guyon (Guyon instrumental incurvation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Guyon Krümmung (Guyon instrumental incurvation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καμπύλωση (arch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | behajlítás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | incurvationay encurvar (crook, incus, round), encurvação. (various references) сгибание (flection, flexion, incurvature, inflection, inflexion), изгиб (arc, bend, crook, curvature, curve, double, flection, flexure, inflection, meanders, offset, twist, wriggle). (various references) savijanje (flexion, inflexion, offset), krivljenje (warp). (various references) encorvadura (bend, curve, flexion). (various references) krökning (curl, curvature, curve, flexion, incurvature, loop), böjning (bending, conjugation, crook, curve, declension, deflection, deflexion, diffraction, flection, flexion, flexure, inclination, incurvature, inflection, inflexion). (various references) içine eğrilme. (various references) угинання, відхилення (aberration, challenge, declension, declination, denial, departure, deviation, digression, divagation, divergence, divergency, diversion, excursus, negative, rejection, swerve). (various references) sự uốn cong v o (incurvature), sự bẻ cong v o (incurvature). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "INCURVATION": incurvations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "INCURVATION" (pronounced 'In`cur*va"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-n-n-o-r-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: incaution, ruination, urination. | |
-3 letters: continua, countian, inaction, nirvanic, uranitic, victoria. | |
-4 letters: actinon, anionic, auction, avionic, carotin, caution, contain, corvina, courant, curtain, nicotin, nocturn, noritic, rainout, ruction, unction, unicorn, vitrain. | |
-5 letters: action, anoint, anuric, aortic, aroint, atonic, cannot, canton, cantor, carton, cation, cavort, citrin, citron, contra, cornua, cortin, craton, iatric, incant, intron, inturn, ironic, nation. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-n-n-o-r-t-u-v" | |
+1 letter: incurvations. | |
+3 letters: countervailing, overcautioning. | |
+5 letters: circumnavigation. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4E 43 55 52 56 41 54 49 4F 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. -.-. ..- .-. ...- .- - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01001110 01000011 01010101 01010010 01010110 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I N C U R V A T I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004E 0043 0055 0052 0056 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4348375552563554434948 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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