Definition of Closed curve

1. Noun. A curve (such as a circle) having no endpoints.

Generic synonyms: Curve, Curved Shape
Specialized synonyms: Jordan Curve, Simple Closed Curve

Lexicographical Neighbors of Closed Curve

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closed captions
closed chain
closed chain compound
closed circle
closed circuit
closed circuit method
closed circuits
closed circulatory system
closed comedo
closed compound
closed compounds
closed corporation
closed couplet
closed curve (current term)
closed cut valley
closed dislocation
closed door
closed drainage
closed form
closed fracture
closed game
closed games
closed gentian
closed head injury
closed hospital
closed in
closed in(p)
closed interval

Literary usage of Closed curve

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1892)
"This integral therefore, considered as depending only on the closed curve s and the arbitrary curve AP, is an instance of a function of multiple values, ..."

2. A Course in Mathematical Analysis by Edouard Goursat (1916)
"Integrals taken along a closed curve. In the preceding paragraphs, ... If a function f(«) is analytic within a closed curve and also on the curve itself, ..."

3. The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley by Arthur Cayley (1896)
"Consider, as before, P as describing a closed curve which does not include within it any point V, and the corresponding points P' as describing each of them ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"A closed curve with a Examples.— (1) The limiting ease of closed figure without dimension is a couple : points. In 1-space (straight line) it bounds ..."

5. Electrical Papers by Oliver Heaviside (1894)
"Transferring our attention next to the current passing through the closed curve, we see that when the line-integral is nil the current is nil, ..."

6. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1843)
"Secondly either N2 contains a simple closed curve passing through the base of/, or it is A-equivalent to a cubical network having a frond of degree at least ..."

7. Bulletin by Bluemont Mount Weather Observatory, Va, Mount Weather Observatory, Bluemont, Va, Nebraska, United States Weather Bureau, Insect Pest and Plant Disease Bureau (1913)
"Accordingly a closed curve at the end of the axle has a smaller circulation, and therefore embraces a smaller number of unit vortices than does a closed ..."

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