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A curve formed by  plotting, on a cumulative basis, the amount of income or wealth possessed by members of a community against the number of individuals that possess that amount - so that equality is denoted by a straight line and inequality by the degree of curvature.
A curve formed by  plotting, on a cumulative basis, the amount of income received by members of a community against the number of individuals that receive that amount - so that inequality  of income is indicated by departure from the 45 degree diagonal (sometimes applied to wealth).

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Lorenz curve [r]: A curve formed by plotting, on a cumulative basis, the amount of income received by members of a community against the number of individuals that receive that amount - so that inequality of income is indicated by departure from the 45 degree diagonal (sometimes applied to wealth).