incurvation

English

Noun

incurvation (countable and uncountable, plural incurvations)

1. The act of acquiring or being given a curved form; an instance of curving or bending.
   • 1831, David Brewster, Memoirs of the Life of Sir I. Newton, published 1855, I. vii. 152:

     The incurvation or bending of a ray of light, incident on such a surface.

2. The state of being curved or bent; any curved shape or formation; curvature; a curve; a bend.
   1. A curving inwards; the condition of being curved inwards.
3. (obsolete) Bowing in reverence or worship.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “incurvation”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• unVictorian, unvictorian

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

incurvation f (plural incurvations)

1. incurvation

Further reading

• “incurvation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.