How to pronounce curve

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What curve means

verb

Most people know curve in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

To raise test grades based on how the whole class did

In a sentence: The test was so hard that Ms. Diaz decided to curve everyone's scores.

Where it comes from: It comes from the Latin curvus, meaning bent. Grades get curved by fitting them to a bell-shaped curve on a graph.

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