Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of bending or curving.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of bending or crooking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
curving orbending .
Etymologies
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Latin curvatio.
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Examples
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In some species of _Artabotrys_, indeed, fasciation and curvation of the inflorescence are common.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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It was while thus "in position" -- not its master, but its slave -- that curvation of the spine of society, which produces so much paralysis and death -- that, when he came to Princes St.eet, he felt himself constrained and able to walk up South St. Andrew St.eet, direct to the door of the
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII Alexander Leighton 1837
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