Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
To bend; to crook. · To cause to swerve from a straight course. · To bend or turn gradually from a given direction. · To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
A bend, such as in a road. · A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line. · A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject. · A grading system where all raw scores are raised by a set number of points.
Attested since the 1690s, from Latin curvus (“bent, curved”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”) + *-wós. Doublet of curb, shrink, carcer, and cancer.
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