convexity

Negative convexity means potential price gains for investors from the bond are capped by falling interest rates because borrowers can pay off their loans long before maturity.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Homeowners’ prepayment options become more valuable, which exacerbates negative convexity for mortgage bonds.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

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

The convexities on one side of the fissure correspond with marked regularity to the concavities on the other.

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker

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

If, now, we find that an old, easy shoe has worked the inside surface of its sole into convexities which support the arches, we are safe in imitating that at any rate.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various