Search:convex -> CONVEX
convex
c o n v e x hex:#99;#111;#110;#118;#101;#120;
The Salt of the World?
- Convex - a. - Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave.
- Convex - n. - A convex body or surface.
- Convexed - a. - Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form.
- Convexedly - dv. - In a convex form; convexly.
- Convexedness - n. - Convexity.
- Convexities - pl. - of Convexity
- Convexity - n. - The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness.
- Convexly - adv. - In a convex form; as, a body convexly shaped.
- Convexness - n. - The state of being convex; convexity.
- Convexo-concave - a. - Convex on one side, and concave on the other. The curves of the convex and concave sides may be alike or may be different. See Meniscus.
- Convexo-convex - a. - Convex on both sides; double convex. See under Convex, a.
- Convexo-plane - a. - Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.
- Ginglymodi - n. - An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebrae convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See Ganoidel.
- Talon - n. - A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee.
- Collimator - n. - A tube having a convex lens at one end and at the other a small opening or slit which is at the principal focus of the lens, used for producing a beam of parallel rays; also, a lens so used.
- Presbyopia - - A defect of vision consequent upon advancing age. It is due to rigidity of the crystalline lens, which produces difficulty of accommodation and recession of the near point of vision, so that objects very near the eyes can not be seen distinctly without the use of convex glasses. Called also presbytia.
- Scimitar - n. - A saber with a much curved blade having the edge on the convex side, -- in use among Mohammedans, esp., the Arabs and persians.
- Aphakia - n. - An anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses.
- Mammillary - a. - Composed of convex convex concretions, somewhat resembling the breasts in form; studded with small mammiform protuberances.
- Reversal - n. - The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens.
- Bandy - a. - Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.
- Tongue-shaped - a. - Shaped like a tongue; specifically (Bot.), linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.
- Macadamize - v. t. - To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.
- Mushroom-headed - a. - Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter; having a head like that of a mushroom.
- Inclined - p. p. & a. - Bent out of a perpendicular position, or into a curve with the convex side uppermost.
- Meniscus - n. - A lens convex on one side and concave on the other.
- Reeding - n. - A small convex molding; a reed (see Illust. (i) of Molding); one of several set close together to decorate a surface; also, decoration by means of reedings; -- the reverse of fluting.
- Neckmould - n. - A small convex molding surrounding a column at the jinction of the shaft and capital.
- Yoke - n. - A frame or convex piece by which a bell is hung for ringing it. See Illust. of Bell.
- Convexity - n. - The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness.
- Omphaloptic - n. - An optical glass that is convex on both sides.
- Refractor - n. - A refracting telescope, in which the image to be viewed is formed by the refraction of light in passing through a convex lens.
- Sunglass - n. - A convex lens of glass for producing heat by converging the sun's rays into a focus.
- Rose-cut - a. - Cut flat on the reverse, and with a convex face formed of triangular facets in rows; -- said of diamonds and other precious stones. See Rose diamond, under Rose. Cf. Brilliant, n.
- Opisthocoelous - a. - Concave behind; -- applied especially to vertebrae in which the anterior end of the centrum is convex and the posterior concave.
- Corymb - n. - A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.
- Glabellum - n. - The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. See Trilobite.
strongscsv:description