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.
• CONVEXNESS
  The state of being convex; convexity.
• 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,
• 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.