convexity
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This convexity extends aft to an efficient 13-degree deadrise at the transom.
From Time Magazine Archive
This convexity, this pimple of curiosity, this wart of circumspection, is indeed worthy of jest.
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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 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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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 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)
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
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
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