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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : adjective, verb kon-keyv, kon-keyv; noun kon-keyv |
| Phonetic Transcription : adjective, verb kɒnˈkeɪv, ˈkɒn keɪv; noun ˈkɒn keɪv |
Definition of concave
Origin :- early 15c., from Old French concave (14c.) or directly from Latin concavus "hollow, arched, vaulted, curved," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + cavus "hollow" (see cave (n.)).
- adj curved, depressed
- In a concave mirror the top and bottom are inverted, but this is no transposition.
- Extract from : « Timaeus » by Plato
- I am bending them in concave cathode of force over the city.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 » by Various
- I ran up the twisted, concave surface of a giant stem of some kind.
- Extract from : « The Terror from the Depths » by Sewell Peaslee Wright
- A dentist's mirror is concave; he sees your teeth enlarged in it.
- Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne
- It was a concave lens, like some powerful optical instrument.
- Extract from : « The Whispering Spheres » by Russell Robert Winterbotham
- You will perceive, Watson, that the glasses are concave and of unusual strength.
- Extract from : « The Return of Sherlock Holmes » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The sky was like a bowl of brass, and in the concave buzzards were sailing.
- Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston
- Thus, far from being salient, its horizontal section is concave.
- Extract from : « A Pair of Blue Eyes » by Thomas Hardy
- The surgeon and the wounded were well sheltered in a concave hollow of the bank.
- Extract from : « Marion's Faith. » by Charles King
- The gouge is a form of chisel, the blade of which is concave, and hence the edge curved.
- Extract from : « Handwork in Wood » by William Noyes
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