incurvation

incurvation (countable and uncountable, plural incurvations)

1. The act of acquiring or being given a curved form; an instance of curving or bending.
   • 1831 David Brewster, Memoirs of the Life of Sir I. Newton (1855) I. vii. 152:

     The incurvation or bending of a ray of light, incident on such a surface.

2. The state of being curved or bent; any curved shape or formation; curvature; a curve; a bend.
   1. A curving inwards; the condition of being curved inwards.
3. (obsolete) Bowing in reverence or worship.

• “incurvation” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

• unVictorian, unvictorian