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Word Meanings - CONVEXED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form. Sir T. Browne.

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  • CONVEXED
    Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form. Sir T. Browne.
  • CONVEXEDNESS
    Convexity.
  • CONVEX
    Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave. Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a
  • CONVEXO-PLANE
    Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.
  • PROTUBERANT
    Prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant joint; a protuberant eye. -- Pro*tu"ber*ant*ly, adv.
  • SPHERICAL; SPHERIC
    1. Having the form of a sphere; like a sphere; globular; orbicular; as, a spherical body. 2. Of or pertaining to a sphere. 3. Of or pertaining to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology,
  • CONVEXNESS
    The state of being convex; convexity.
  • CONVEXLY
    In a convex form; as, a body convexly shaped.
  • CONVEXO-CONCAVE
    Convex on one side, and concave on the other. The curves of the convex and concave sides may be alike or may be different. See Meniscus.
  • CONVEXO-CONVEX
    Convex on botConvex, a.
  • CONVEXEDLY
    In a convex form; convexly. Sir T. Browne.
  • CONVEXITY
    The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness. A smooth, uniform convexity and rotundity of a globe. Bentley.
  • ATMOSPHERICALLY
    In relation to the atmosphere.
  • SUBSPHERICAL
    Nearly spherical; having a figure resembling that of a sphere.
  • HEMISPHERIC; HEMISPHERICAL
    Containing, or pertaining to, a hemisphere; as, a hemispheric figure or form; a hemispherical body.
  • PERISPHERIC; PERISPHERICAL
    Exactly spherical; globular.
  • HELISPHERIC; HELISPHERICAL
    Spiral. Helispherical line . the rhomb line in navigation.
  • SEMISPHERIC; SEMISPHERICAL
    Having the figure of a half sphere. Kirwan.
  • PLANO-CONVEX
    Plane or flat on one side, and convex on the other; as, a plano-convex lens. See Convex, and Lens.
  • CONCAVO-CONVEX
    Specifically, having such a combination of concave and convex sides as makes the focal axis the shortest line between them. See Illust. under Lens. (more info) 1. Concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or a crescent.
  • BICONVEX
    Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens.

 

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