subcurve

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noun

A curve forming part of another curve.

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Meanings

nounsubcurve (plural subcurves)

plural subcurves

  1. A curve forming part of another curve.

    We show that an analytic curve is either exponential or splits into countably many analytic immersive curves; each of them decomposing naturally into symmetry free subcurves mutually and uniquely related by the group action.

    2016, Maximilian Hanusch, “Symmetries of Analytic Curves”, in arXiv

Origin

From sub- + curve.

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APA

subcurve. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subcurve

MLA

“subcurve.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subcurve. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “subcurve,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/subcurve.

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