Characteristic curve may refer to:
- In electronics, a representation of certain electrical characteristics of a device or component
- Semiconductor curve tracer, a device for displaying the above curve
- In photography, a plot of film density: see sensitometry
- In mathematics, used in the method of characteristics for solving partial differential equations
Famous quotes containing the word curve:
“I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty.... Here was every sensuous curve of the “human figure divine” but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.”
—Edward Weston (1886–1958)