CONCAVE
\kɒnkˈe͡ɪv], \kɒnkˈeɪv], \k_ɒ_n_k_ˈeɪ_v]\
Definitions of CONCAVE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky.
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Hollow; void of contents.
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A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll.
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To make hollow or concave.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To make hollow.
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With a curved hollow, as that of a basin; opposed to convex.
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A curved hollow; an arch or vault.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Curved, vaulted, or arched, applied to the inner side of any curved line or rounded body, and opposed to convex, which is applied to the outside.
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A hollow: an arch or vault.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A hollow place scooped out; the inner surface of any rounded or spherical body-the inside is called the concave surface, the outside the convex surface.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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