convexity

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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This habit creates an excessive lenticular convexity which, over a period of time, causes a focal point in front of the retina, thereby producing a myopic or nearsighted condition.

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His mouth was set in its habitual glower, the corners bent downward in perfect convexity, and his ashen head blended seamlessly into the white clouds overhead.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

Briefly, there is in quadrupeds one dorso-lumbar curve; and not both a dorsal and a lumbar, with convexities in opposite directions.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard

The lenses are usually plano-convex, the convexities being turned towards the object-glass in the negative eye-piece, and towards each other in the positive eye-piece.

From Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. by Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony)

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 Vries, Hugo de