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center of curvature
Definition of CENTER OF CURVATURE
: the center of the circle whose center lies on the concave side of a curve on the normal to a given point of the curve and whose radius is equal to the radius of curvature at that point
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First Known Use of CENTER OF CURVATURE
1850
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