concavity

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As with the proposed LCRT, the Arecibo Observatory took advantage of the natural concavity of its resident crater to focus distant radio waves.

From Salon • Sep. 5, 2021

It’s that point on a curve where the sign of the curvature — the concavity — changes.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2018

We conclude that we can determine the concavity of a function f by looking at the second derivative of f .

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

Even before smartphones, feature phones were colloquially known as soapbars because they all adhered to the concavity of the human palm.

From The Verge • Mar. 31, 2015

The concavity in the center of the bed is rectified by sleeping on a folded-up towel, and so forth.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich