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concave

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concave
1. Physics having one or two surfaces curved or ground in the shape of a section of the interior of a sphere, paraboloid, etc.
2. Maths (of a polygon) containing an interior angle greater than 180°

concave [′kän‚kāv]
(science and technology)
Having a curved form which bulges inward resembling the interior of a sphere or cylinder or a section of these bodies.


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Before again issuing from it, this spiral runs into a small cone with a concave base, that is turned downward in the shape of a spherical cap.
The city of Wintoncester, that fine old city, aforetime capital of Wessex, lay amidst its convex and concave downlands in all the brightness and warmth of a July morning.
It terminated in a concave breast of rock, nearly vertical and destitute of vegetation.
 
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