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Contortive

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• Contour-curtain

  noun, Theater. 1. a curtain having lines attached to several points for drawing up into folds of various shapes.

• Contoured

  [kon-too r] /ˈkɒn tʊər/ noun 1. the outline of a figure or body; the edge or line that defines or bounds a shape or object. 2. . 3. Phonetics. a distinctive pattern of changes in pitch, stress, or tone extending across all or part of an utterance, especially across a sentence, and contributing to meaning. […]

• Contour-feather

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• Contour-integration

  noun, Mathematics. 1. integration in the complex plane about a closed curve of finite length.

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