courbes — meaning in English
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English meaning
- curve noun A smoothly bending line, with no sharp corners.
Senses
courbes is used for these senses in English:
- curve 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.
curve — full definition
- noun A smoothly bending line, with no sharp corners.
- verb To bend gradually rather than at a sharp angle.
- noun A system of grading students relative to how the whole class performed, rather than against a fixed standard.