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mathematics, a brachistochrone curve (from Ancient Greek βράχιστος χρόνος (brákhistos khrónos) 'shortest time'), or curve of fastest descent, is the one...

Travel-time curve is a graph showing the relationship between the distance from the epicenter to the observation point and the travel time. Travel-time curve...

The Time Curve is an American anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Sam Moskowitz and Roger Elwood. It was first published in paperback...

over time. An activity that it is easy to learn the basics of, but difficult to gain proficiency in, may be described as having "a steep learning curve".[citation...

mathematics, a curve (also called a curved line in older texts) is an object similar to a line, but that does not have to be straight. Intuitively, a curve may be...

The Time Curve Preludes is a minimalist composition for piano solo by William Duckworth written between 1977 and 1978. This piece is credited as the first...

The Curve of Time is a 1961 book by M. Wylie Blanchet recounting trips she took with her five children throughout the inland waterways between Vancouver...

curve or isochrone curve (from Ancient Greek ταὐτό (tauto-) 'same' ἴσος (isos-) 'equal' and χρόνος (chronos) 'time') is the curve for which the time taken...

The bathtub curve is a particular shape of a failure rate graph. This graph is used in reliability engineering and deterioration modeling. The 'bathtub'...

you paid with after each transaction is complete." Curve named this feature "Back in time". Curve, which owns and operates the card and for which the...

A Bézier curve (/ˈbɛz.i.eɪ/ BEH-zee-ay) is a parametric curve used in computer graphics and related fields. A set of discrete "control points" defines...

Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) is an approach to public-key cryptography based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields. ECC...

The forgetting curve hypothesizes the decline of memory retention in time. This curve shows how information is lost over time when there is no attempt...

of a properly constructed yield curve. It should be based on a set of securities which have differing lengths of time to maturity, and all yields should...

In economics, a cost curve is a graph of the costs of production as a function of total quantity produced. In a free market economy, productively efficient...

In mathematical physics, a closed timelike curve (CTC) is a world line in a Lorentzian manifold, of a material particle in spacetime, that is "closed"...

medical imaging, a time-activity curve is a curve of radioactivity (in terms of concentration) plotted on the y-axis against the time plotted on the x-axis...

Laffer curve illustrates a theoretical relationship between rates of taxation and the resulting levels of the government's tax revenue. The Laffer curve assumes...

Differential geometry of curves is the branch of geometry that deals with smooth curves in the plane and the Euclidean space by methods of differential...

become available with the passage of time since the hypothesis was expressed, the data show waves rather than a curve. The Kuznets ratio is a measurement...