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