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convexity

[kuhn-vek-si-tee] / kənˈvɛk sɪ ti /




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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 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.

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

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

Blue they were, blue of a peculiar vibrancy, and blue were the glistening threads that ran down from blue-black circular convexities set within each of the points visible to me.

From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt

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 ?douard Cuyer




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