concavity
Origin of concavity
1Other words from concavity
- sub·con·cav·i·ty, noun, plural sub·con·cav·i·ties.
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How to use concavity in a sentence
Trig would take off just as the concavity of one hill was flipping from positive to negative.
The little concavity between the false vocal bands above and the true vocal bands below is termed the ventricle of the larynx.
Voice Production in Singing and Speaking | Wesley MillsThen rest the cork with the forks as counter-weights upon the end of the egg to which the concavity has been adapted.
Next cut a slight concavity in one end of one of the corks, so as to adapt it as exactly as possible to one end of an egg.
It drops into a vast concavity in the sand rock, where the water is of unfathomable depth, black and still.
Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Long shallow flakes were removed to thin the base in the basal concavity.
Handbook of Alabama Archaeology: Part I Point Types | James W. Cambron
British Dictionary definitions for concavity
/ (kɒnˈkævɪtɪ) /
the state or quality of being concave
a concave surface or thing; cavity
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