convexity
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Vocabulary lists containing convexity
The Lightning Thief
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The Call of Chtulhu
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