convexity

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

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 convexities on one side of the fissure correspond with marked regularity to the concavities on the other.

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker

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

In a double convex lens with equal convexities the aberration is 167/100ths of its thickness.

From Wireless Transmission of Photographs Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged 1919 by Marcus J. Martin