a. Geom. [a. mod.F. curvital, f. curvité curvity + -AL.] Of or pertaining to curvity or curvature. Curvital function, a function expressing the length of the perpendicular from a fixed point of a curve upon the normal at a variable point, in terms of the length of the arc from the fixed to the variable point.
1886. Carr, Synopsis Math., Index C 60.
