Its surface, though flat, assumed an appearance of concavity. From Wordnik.com. [She Is The Darkness]
Mr Jeff: finding zeroes of non-quadratic functions to use for concavity tests. From Wordnik.com. [terrarose Diary Entry] Reference
Their convexity is turned towards the uterus, the concavity towards the embryo. From Wordnik.com. [On the Generation of Animals] Reference
Between us and the rapids, the concavity of the southern bank forms a bight or bay. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
Amplected: when the head is received into a concavity of the prothorax; e.g. Hister. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
He squinted angrily and lowered the rifle, aiming at the tender concavity between my eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Test]
The floor was uneven-concave, convex, stepped, ridged-with concavity being the dominant curve. From Wordnik.com. [Prince of Chaos]
He murmured softly in his own language, rest ing his cheek against the concavity of her stomach. From Wordnik.com. [The Tycoon's Mistress]
The concavity in the center of the bed is rectified by sleeping on a folded-up towel, and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [Nickel and Dimed]
He showed me his prize, a chalky spiral concavity in a chunk of Bright Angel shale an inch on a side. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
It is distinguished by concavity of features and obliquity of angles, or rather the absence of angles. From Wordnik.com. [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference
By this term is indicated a condition of the foot where the natural concavity of the sole is absent. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
The concavity lay not between the crests of two waves, but between four uniquely stable oceanic slopes. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
It occupies another concavity 10 km west of Lake Enriquillo, separated from it by the Jimaní anticline. From Wordnik.com. [Enriquillo wetlands] Reference
K, Plate 14, to the inner side of the arm, the concavity of the curve being turned towards the thoracic side. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
A specimen-jar being two-thirds filled with melted jelly, the half-eye is placed in it, the concavity upwards. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
The prow of the boat is connected with the apex of the parabola by a curve whose concavity is directed upward. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
Felicity's negligée was of the clear green of a wave's concavity -- a butterfly of blue enamel pinned her hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
Casting to and fro, he soon found what he expected, a concavity in the tumbled snowlike material, slightly aboil. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
Also, if snubness be a concavity of the nose, and there be a snub nose, there is therefore a ‘concave-nose nose’. From Wordnik.com. [On Sophistical Refutations] Reference
The groove's upper surface in like manner consisted of the interior or concavity of the next higher planet's deferent. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The external nostrils terminated in a single orifice of a semilunar shape, with the concavity turned towards the snout. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Sir John could still see the concavity of his handsome lieutenant's gaping mouth through the dry sag of the red blanket. From Wordnik.com. [The Terror]
"A fascinating notion," murmured Kornhoer, and bent down to examine the man's sketch of a cross-section of the floor's concavity. From Wordnik.com. [A Canticle for Leibowitz]
When in its turn the left of the forward parts is leading, the concavity is in its turn reversed, for the right becomes the inner. From Wordnik.com. [On the Gait of Animals] Reference
` Suddenly I noticed that the circular westward outline of the sun had changed; that a concavity, a bay, had appeared in the curve. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
The bed which is to receive the carbon at the head of the tub must be deeper than ¼″ on account of the concavity of the back-rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
Another form of hanging-drop slide is made in which a circular or oval concavity or "cell" is ground out of the centre of a 3 by 1 slip. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
That expression indicates that the bars have been removed, and the lateral lacunæ of the frog made to continue the concavity of the sole. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
The Cimmerian slipped into the shaft, whose concavity protected him momentarily from the arrows of the Turanians standing near the general. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Freebooter]
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