noun
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the state or quality of being concave
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a concave surface or thing; cavity
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Origin of concavity
1350–1400; Middle English concavite < Late Latin concavitāt- (stem of concavitās ). See con-, cave, -ity
Vocabulary lists containing concavity
AB Calculus
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Calculus, List 1
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BC Calculus
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As with the proposed LCRT, the Arecibo Observatory took advantage of the natural concavity of its resident crater to focus distant radio waves.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2021
It’s that point on a curve where the sign of the curvature — the concavity — changes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2018
In general, without having the graph of a function f , how can we determine its concavity?
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
Even before smartphones, feature phones were colloquially known as soapbars because they all adhered to the concavity of the human palm.
From The Verge ● Mar. 31, 2015
The concavity in the center of the bed is rectified by sleeping on a folded-up towel, and so forth.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
From the edges to the center they were worn down in oval concavities to half their thickness.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Taking out too much fat was what led to the concavities and deformities we saw in the past," says Dr. Alexander Swistel, director of the Weill Cornell Breast Center in New York City.
From Time Magazine Archive
Albers' work was mathematically precise; Arp's cloudy figures were elaborately pointless: in all their polished bulges, holes, twists and suave concavities there was nothing to stop the eye, the hand, or the mind.
From Time Magazine Archive
The antic conglomeration of bumps, bulges and concavities of the Morris Mechanic Theater in Baltimore fairly shouts that the play's the thing—and also divulges stair towers and mechanical equipment spaces.
From Time Magazine Archive
The line separating both was broken into a thousand bits of protuberances and concavities, dented, notched, and jagged.
From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward
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