Another word for curving

By curving the top boom of a girder to form an arch and the bottom boom to form a suspension chain, the need of web except for non-uniform loading is obviated.

A couple of wing-backed chairs and sofa sank luxuriously into that thick wine carpet, but what caught her full attention was the wide curving staircase.

There is a similar difficulty in tracing the paths by which the impulses are transmitted to the growing and curving regions.

The shot is supposed to move horizontally, and the curving effect of gravity is ignored.

of Ostia, with an area of 170 acres enclosed by two curving moles, with an artificial island, supporting a lofty lighthouse, in the centre of the space between them.