What is "convex"

Usage examples of "convex".

The curve as a whole becomes, first slightly convex to the abscissa, then straight and ascending, and lastly concave.

In this cause-and-effect curve, the first part is slightly convex to the abscissa, the second straight and ascending, and the third concave.

Bennett, Becken, Mesevy and Rayat, mirroring their steps along the slight convex curve of the matted vegetation.

You invert it over a gas burner and, when it is hot, bake Turkish flat breads on its convex surface.

The lungs are convex externally, and conform to the cavity of the chest, while the internal surface is concave for the accommodation of the heart.

The whole convex surface, down to the roots-for there is no distinct footstalk-is covered with short glandbearing tentacles, those on the margins being the longest and reflexed.

I have noticed half-completed rhombs at the base of a just-commenced cell, which were slightly concave on one side, where I suppose that the bees had excavated too quickly, and convex on the opposed side, where the bees had worked less quickly.

From a convex plate the Speeds turned into a cup reaching to enfold the Fibian destroyers.

Caliphate mathematical technique to establish a metastable equilibrium that allows convex regions with real and virtual histories to coexist in four-dimensional space-time, while remaining both topologically distinct and contiguous in five-space.

Troilus, looking downward, beholds the converse or convex side of the spheres which it has traversed.

It is more probable that fluid, which we know travels along the tentacles during the act of inflection, is slowly reattracted into the cells of the convex surface, their tension being thus gradually and continually increased.

Using the same piece of bone, the toolmaker retouched the entire blade edge of a smaller, rounder flake into a steep convex form, creating a sturdy, slightly blunt-edged tool that would not break easily from the pressure of scraping wood or animal hides, and would not tear the skins.

Move south, calmly and in all haste, toward some border metropolis Rome NNY or Glens Falls NNY or Beverly MA, say, or those bordered points between them at which the giant protective ATHSCME fans atop the hugely convex protective walls of anodized Lucite hold off the drooling and piss-colored bank of teratogenic Concavity clouds and move the bank well back, north, away, jaggedly, over your protected head.

He found Demetriosclad in brigandine and plain helmet and weighted buskins, and gripping a double-heavy practice sword, with a huge, convex body shield on his left armtrading hard blows with the White Horse Squadron's weapons master.

Baited it could properly be called when the repast was of so wise a savour, and gilded surrounding objects seemed inevitably to need to be when Miss Barrace—which was the lady's name—looked at them with convex Parisian eyes and through a glass with a remarkably long tortoise-shell handle.