convexity

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

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

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

Its rays fell upon the wall before me and suddenly upon the convexities I have described seven little circles of light sprang out.

From The Moon Pool by Merritt, Abraham

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 Smiles, Samuel

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 Miles, Alexander