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• The base is concave near the circumference, then slightly convex, concentrically granosely ridged.2021 November 16, Wikipedia contributors, “Chytra kirki”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation. From the entry granosely
• Clearly every linear functional is affine, and every affine function is both convex and concave.2006, Charalambos D. Aliprantis, Kim C. Border, Infinite Dimensional Analysis: A Hitchhiker's Guide, 3rd edition, Springer, page 256. From the entry affine
• Tabulae are transverse plates which may be flat, convex or concave.1979, E[uan] N[eilson] K[err] Clarkson, Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution, London; Boston, Mass.; Sydney, N.S.W.: George Allen &…. From the entry tabularium
• Plant the tubers roundside down; the buds on the concave side should be & inch below the soil surface.1969, Stanley Schuler, Gardening in the East, page 312. From the entry roundside
• The articular facet for the ectomesocuneiform is oval and slightly convex, and the facet for the entocuneiform is much smaller, rounded to elliptical and concave.2015 December 3, “Systematics and Evolution of the Miocene Three-Horned Palaeomerycid Ruminants (Mammalia, Cetartiodactyla)”, in PLOS ONE…. From the entry ectomesocuneiform
• The cost of this order plan is linear in price, and the associated line must form a segment of the piecewise linear concave envelope.2012, Joseph Geunes, Demand Flexibility in Supply Chain Planning, Springer (Kluwer Academic), page 20. From the entry concave envelope
• Because of the defocusing that occurs when rotated for wavelength tuning, an aberrationally non-corrected concave grating is not naturally suited to high resolution monochromators.1997, Erwin G. Loewen, Evgeny Popov, Diffraction Gratings and Applications, page 253. From the entry aberrationally
• Variations.—Most specimens examined have concave rostral margins that taper to the acumen and the rostral length is greater than the rostral width.1993, Biological Society of Washington, Smithsonian Institution, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Volume 106, page 351. From the entry acumen
• Then standing before a closet mirror, he put the automatic to his head, at the point of the pterion, and pressed the comfortably concaved trigger.1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 349. From the entry pterion
• Imagine my shock when I noticed that Mimas, one of the inner moons of Saturn, had acquired a concave depression in it since the last fly-by!2010 February 19, Hulles, “Mimas!”, in sardonic postmodern humor. From the entry Mimantean
• Above the beard his face was unmasked and very thin, concave cheeks falling away from jutting bones, his eyes sunken deep in their sockets under tufted Gandalfian brows.2007, Amanda Hemingway, The Poisoned Crown, Del Rey, →ISBN, page 291. From the entry Gandalfian
• The abacus is moulded in three sections and has four main concave faces corresponding with the tapering volutes below and truncated by a short square face on the diagonal.2005, Robert Chitham, “Plates 20 and 21: The Ionic Capital I and II”, in The Classical Orders of Architecture, 2nd edition, Oxford…. From the entry abacus
• The shaft parts taper slightly upwards, have rounded outer surfaces and flat or slightly concave inner surfaces which are adapted to the shape of the leister pole.2004, Jørgen Skaarup, “Artefacts”, in Jørgen Skaarup, Ole Grøn, translated by Anne Bloch Jøorgensen and David Earle Robinson, Møllegabet…. From the entry leister
• Explicit expressions defining the facets of the convex and concave envelopes for trilinear monomials, with positive or negative bounded domains for each variable, are derived in this paper.2004, C. A. Meyer, C. A. Floudas, “Trilinear Monomials with Positive or Negative Domains: Facets of the Convex and Concave Envelopes”, in…. From the entry concave envelope
• To help combat these problems, almost all sailmakers trim the leeches of their headsails to a hollow or concave profile and enclose a LEECHLINE within the leech tabling.1984, Sven Donaldson, A Sailor's Guide to Sails, page 130. From the entry leech
• A space curve contained between two concentric spheres and with its concave side facing always toward the common center of the two spheres is said to be periplegmatic.1972, Yusuke Hagihara, Celestial Mechanics: Perturbation Theory, MIT Press. From the entry diastem
• A "deadwater," that is a region occupied by stationary fluid or by gas at suitable pressure, ahead of a concave angle was shown to be possible by Villat.1967, David W. Taylor, Report - Naval Ship Research and Development Center, page 295. From the entry dead water
• After passing through this first set of concave teeth, the straw drops down into a device for refeeding into the second set of teeth at the back of the cylinder.1908, Bulletin, numbers 79-115, page 27. From the entry refeeder

Meaning of concave

1. adjective Curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl.
2. adjective Not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees.
3. adjective Satisfying the property that all segments connecting two points on the function's graph lie below the function.

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Questions about concave in a sentence

How do you use concave in a sentence?

Concave is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “The base is concave near the circumference, then slightly convex, concentrically granosely ridged.”

What is a short sentence with concave?

“Tabulae are transverse plates which may be flat, convex or concave.”

What does concave mean?

Concave means curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl.