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The net of his discourse was that if you live inside a ball, you cannot have any conception of its outside convexity, until you get outside.

From Time Magazine Archive

This convexity, this pimple of curiosity, this wart of circumspection, is indeed worthy of jest.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new 64 Convertible, as with other models recently designed in-house at Hatteras, incorporates a slight degree of convexity forward.

From Time Magazine Archive

This convexity extends aft to an efficient 13-degree deadrise at the transom.

From Time Magazine Archive

“The convexity will cause some distortion. The reflections size should be off by a factor of—” “Would you speak English?”

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

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

There are sides and curves, concaves and convexities, and angles of every degree, in the stones that make up my tower.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 by Various