convexity
noun
the state of being convex.
convexities
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pluralof convexity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Mughal ceilings, let your mirrored convexities multiply me at once under your spell tonight.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2021
A research staff works on a trading floor behind convexities of smoked glass, at cockpit-like desks of kid-glove Bentley leather with three screens apiece.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2018
To re-establish the equilibrium of the column, “secondary” or “compensatory” curves, with their convexities to the left, develop in the regions above and below the primary curve.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
It is perhaps too technical to be illustrated in words, which are full of focuses, parabolas, and convexities.
From Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles
The blade shows numbers of convexities on either surface, the whole surface being undulated in this manner; it lacks also the brightness of the ordinary evening-primrose or Oenothera biennis.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
