convexity

Homeowners’ prepayment options become more valuable, which exacerbates negative convexity for mortgage bonds.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Negative convexity means potential price gains for investors from the bond are capped by falling interest rates because borrowers can pay off their loans long before maturity.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

The new 64 Convertible, as with other models recently designed in-house at Hatteras, incorporates a slight degree of convexity forward.

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

“The convexity will cause some distortion. The reflections size should be off by a factor of—” “Would you speak English?”

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

Mughal ceilings, let your mirrored convexities multiply me at once under your spell tonight.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2021

A research staff works on a trading floor behind convexities of smoked glass, at cockpit-like desks of kid-glove Bentley leather with three screens apiece.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2018

The blade shows numbers of convexities on either surface, the whole surface being undulated in this manner; it lacks also the brightness of the ordinary evening-primrose or Oenothera biennis.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

The lenses are usually plano-convex, the convexities being turned towards the object-glass in the negative eye-piece, and towards each other in the positive eye-piece.

From Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor

She was a short, plump woman, and all of her convexities seemed emphasized by flour.

From The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories by Margaret Collier Graham