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Noun Concept
Categories: Curvature (mathematics), Surfaces, Differential geometry of surfaces
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principal curvature  curvature line  elliptic point  line of curvature  lines of curvature
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In differential geometry, the two principal curvatures at a given point of a surface are the maximum and minimum values of the curvature as expressed by the eigenvalues of the shape operator at that point. Wikipedia
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In differential geometry, the two principal curvatures at a given point of a surface are the maximum and minimum values of the curvature as expressed by the eigenvalues of the shape operator at that point. Wikipedia
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curvature
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curvature line, elliptic point, line of curvature, lines of curvature, parabolic point, principal curvatures, principal directions (geometry), Principle curvature

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