curved inward

The shape of the coast in that region – known as Florida’s Big Bend area – is also curved inward, which can focus the storm surge to make it even more dangerous, he said.

Unlike the fossilized bear’s straight thumbs, modern panda’s pseudothumbs are curved inward like a hook.

Flo-Jo was known for her loud outfits, the most famous of which was a neon purple, one-legged spandex bodysuit that Serena Williams emulated in January at the Australian Open, and nails so long they curved inward.

“There are a good many books where you can’t find the title right away. After all, it’s a relatively modern habit to put it on the cover. When books were still bound so that the spines curved inward the title might be on the side, if anywhere, but in most cases you found it out only when you opened the book. It wasn’t until bookbinders learned to make rounded spines that the title moved to the cover of the book.”

If the surface is concave - curved inward - the light will appear to move together and annihilate each other.