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pseudoconcave

pseudoconcave adjective: (said of a function) differentiable and decreasing in any direction where it has a negative directional derivative.

Adjective

pseudoconcave (not comparable)

  1. (said of a function) differentiable and decreasing in any direction where it has a negative directional derivative.

Antonyms of pseudoconcave

Origin of pseudoconcave

From pseudo- + concave.

Words formed from pseudoconcave

Questions about pseudoconcave

What does pseudoconcave mean?
Pseudoconcave means (said of a function) differentiable and decreasing in any direction where it has a negative directional derivative.
What part of speech is pseudoconcave?
Pseudoconcave is an adjective.

Words near pseudoconcave in the dictionary

  1. pseudocompliment
  2. pseudocompliments
  3. pseudocomponent
  4. pseudocomponents
  5. pseudocompressibility
  6. pseudoconcave
  7. pseudoconcavity
  8. pseudoconcept
  9. pseudoconcepts
  10. pseudoconditioned
  11. pseudoconditioning

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