Word Meanings - CONVEXITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness. A smooth, uniform convexity and rotundity of a globe. Bentley.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONVEXITY)
- Projection
- Protuberance
- prominence
- convexity
- propulsion
- emission
- Protrusion
- protuberance
- tongue
- Lump
- swelling
- excrescence
- Rotundity
- Roundness
- circularity
- sphericity
- globosity
- intumescence
Related words: (words related to CONVEXITY)
- PROJECTION
The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction - TONGUELET
A little tongue. - TONGUE-SHELL
Any species of Lingula. - CIRCULARITY
The quality or state of being circular; a circular form. - INTUMESCENCE
1. The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat. The intumescence of nations. Johnson. 2. Anything swollen or enlarged, - PROTUBERANCE
That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation. Solar protuberances , certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which - SWELLTOAD
A swellfish. - TONGUESTER
One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson. - PROMINENCE; PROMINENCY
1. The quality or state of being prominent; a standing out from something; conspicuousness. 2. That which is prominent; a protuberance. Solar prominences. See Solar Protuberances, under Protuberance. - TONGUED
Having a tongue. Tongued like the night crow. Donne. - TONGUE-TIED
1. Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short frænum. 2. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak. - GLOBOSITY
Sphericity. Ray. - SPHERICITY
The quality or state of being spherial; roundness; as, the sphericity of the planets, or of a drop of water. - TONGUE-PAD
A great talker. - ROUNDNESS
1. The quality or state of being round in shape; as, the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, a column, etc. 2. Fullness; smoothness of flow; as, the roundness of a period; the roundness of a note; roundness of tone. - SWELL
1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. 2. To increase in - TONGUE-SHAPED
Shaped like a tongue; specifically , linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf. - SWELLDOM
People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively. - TONGUEFISH
A flounder native of the southern coast of the United States. - PROPULSION
1. The act driving forward or away; the act or process of propelling; as, steam propulsion. 2. An impelling act or movement. God works in all things; all obey His first propulsion. Whittier. - SERPENT-TONGUED
Having a forked tongue, like a serpent. - HONEY-TONGUED
Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak. - UPSWELL
To swell or rise up. - SHRILL-TONGUED
Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak. - ADDER'S-TONGUE
A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray. - LONG-TONGUE
The wryneck. - PLEASANT-TONGUED
Of pleasing speech. - TRUMPET-TONGUED
Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech. - OROTUNDITY
The orotund mode of intonation. - DEMISSION
1. The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection. "Demission of mind." Hammond. Demission of sovereign authority. L'Estrange. 2. Resignation of an office. - UNSWELL
To sink from a swollen state; to subside. Chaucer. - HEARTSWELLING
Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser. - TWO-TONGUED
Double-tongued; deceitful. Sandys.