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Example Sentences
Main Entry:
con·vex
[
adj.
kon-
veks
,
k
uh
n-
;
n.
kon
-veks
]
/
adj.
kɒnˈvɛks
,
kən-
;
n.
ˈkɒn
vɛks
/
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convex
Main Entry:
convex
Part of Speech:
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry:
convex
Part of Speech:
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Example Sentences
They come in nine positive-negative pairs: one with a
convex
top and a drainage trough around the rim, the other concave.
The way he contrasts
convex
shapes with concave ones also stays in memory.
Shaping the hyperbolic,
convex
curve of the secondary mirror proved troublesome.
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They come in nine positive-negative pairs: one with a
convex
top and a drainage trough around the rim, the other concave.
The way he contrasts
convex
shapes with concave ones also stays in memory.
Shaping the hyperbolic,
convex
curve of the secondary mirror proved troublesome.
Its ilium is distinctive, being dorsally
convex
in profile and with a thick dorsal margin.
The mirrors work on the same principal as those big
convex
mirrors mounted at the corners of large parking garages.
In other places, he could learn about
convex
shapes from yellowed bulges near the ceiling.
Again, the deeply modeled
convex
surfaces are backed by smoothed-out flat planes.
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Main Entry:
convex
Part of Speech:
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
Copyright © 2002. Published by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved.
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