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  1. A piece or lock of curling hair; a ringlet.
  2. A curved stroke or shape.
    • 1995, John Curtis, Julian Reade, & Dominique Collon, Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum‎, page 184:
      Template:... the backs of their necks and their forelegs are decorated with curls and their necks and bodies are covered with fine, undulating lines.
  3. A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
    • 1909, Harold Horsfall Hilton, The Six Handicap Golfer's Companion[1], page 38:
      It is possible to use the wind which blows from the left to the right by playing well into the wind with the slightest bit of curl on the ball Template:...
  4. Template:Curling Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
  5. Template:Weightlifting Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
    • 2007 (Jan/Feb), Jon Crosby, "Your Winter Muscle Makeover", Men's Health, page 54:
      Now do a curl and an overhead press, keeping your palms facing in.
  6. Template:Calculus The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
    The curl of the vector field <math>\vec{F}=(xyz,xyz,xyz)</math> is the vector field <math>\vec{\nabla}\times\vec{F}=(xz-xy,xy-yz,yz-xz)</math>.
    • 1995, Erich Prisner, Graph dynamics:
      In 2D, when Q is a polygonal domain, the singularities of Type (2) disappear because ψ is the scalar curl of u and is such that its vectorial curl is zero.
  7. Template:Calculus The vector operator, denoted <math>\rm{curl}\;</math> or <math>\vec{\nabla}\times\vec{\left(\cdot\right)}</math>, that generates this field.
  8. Template:Agriculture Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
    • 1840, "Farmers' Department", The Family Magazine, volume 1, page 227:
      These potatoes, however, planted the next year, have a fair yield, untouched by the curl.

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