Curve in sentence

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And when this happens, it blocks out a tiny bit of starlight, which you can see as a dip in this curve.

The white line is light just from the star, what astronomers call a light curve.

There is a huge complex of dips in the light curve that appear, and they last for like a hundred days, all the way up into the Kepler mission's end.

Now, you may be wondering, OK, Tabby, well, how do aliens actually explain this light curve?

But if there is matter in the environment, such as the Sun, it causes the fabric of space to warp, to curve.

There didn't seem to be anything else to warp or curve.

This curve tells about the statistics of velocities of particles in the same way as a demographic curve would tell about the statistics of ages of individuals.

Of this curve, the famous scientist Francis Galton said, "It would have been deified by the Greeks if they had known it.

For you I have shown it, but to my students I explain why it could not be any other curve.

That is a light curve.

It is a gamma-ray light curve.

I thought long and hard about it, when I suddenly realized that all a light curve is, is a table of numbers converted into a visual plot.

It looks like a curve, right?

Have a look at the curve.

Then we can actually see that what started out as just straight lines is actually a curve called a parabola.

Until one of my colleagues said, "It looks to me like a thermal blister, and the mid-ocean ridge must be a cooling curve."

And you may remember from those boring days in biology class that populations tend to distribute around a mean as a Gaussian or a normal curve.

What if I told you there was a new technology that, when placed in the hands of doctors and nurses, improved outcomes for children and adults, patients of all ages; reduced pain and suffering, reduced time in the operating rooms, reduced anesthetic times, had the ultimate dose-response curve that the more you did it, the better it benefitted patients?

So, the head of the curve can be sharper or flatter.

You can see the curve is obviously heavily left-weighted.

19th century psychologist Herman Ebbinghaus demonstrated that we normally forget 40% of new material within the first twenty minutes, a phenomenon known as the forgetting curve.

So what will be really fun about this is you have a flat torque RPM curve with an electric motor, whereas with a diesel motor or any kind of internal combustion engine car, you've got a torque RPM curve that looks like a hill.

And if you're lucky, they'll tell their friends on the rest of the curve, and it'll spread.

So take a minute and just watch any bend or curve in this river, and you'll see it doesn't stay in the same place for very long.

The curve is a function of the way aging itself affects the brain.

But do you know where you are on the curve?

What's the past curve look like?

And what kind of decision is the right one to make your own right curve over your life journey?

On most surfaces, water droplets tend to curve inwards, forming a semihemisphere shape.

We're on this curve, and the graphics are getting so ridiculously better.

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