Õ: matemaatilises kontekstis "kurviks"
nimetamine on eksitav; isehakanud "ekspertide"
"elliptilised kurvid" on tegelikult elliptkõverad

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Wiktionary:
noun
2. a simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
4. (analytic geometry) a continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space
5. (geometry) a one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space
6. (algebraic geometry) an algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates
7. (topology) a one-dimensional continuum

ülevaateid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_curves

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_curves

https://www.2dcurves.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20040609111105/http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Curves.html