convexities

The reverse view turns the concavities of the title into convexities, countering them with horizontal concave planes.

Works of Many Dimensions Karen Wilkin 2011

Marbles at one end and cannon-balls at the other, Maz was all about convexities.

Warthearm 2010

Women's bodies contain so many curves, contours, knurls, crannies, convexities, involutions and promontories that their clothing provides space-age telemetry at every square inch, constantly sending back warning signals to the brain.

The Westinghouse Diet It's as easy as pulling the plug 2010

Nor does it represent economics itself altogether dependably; Rothschild thinks that economists have ignored the famous “learning curve,” when what they have really done is to file it under various other headings, including “convexities,” after the way that mathematical functions representing increasing returns to scale look when graphed.

Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

Blue they were, blue of a peculiar vibrancy, and blue were the glistening threads that ran down from blue-black circular convexities set within each of the points visible to me.

The Metal Monster 2004

It has also arms like man, only covered with hair, and it bends these legs like man, with the convexities of both limbs facing one another.

The History of Animals 2002

Fore and hind may bend either both backwards, as the figures marked A, or in the opposite way both forwards, as in B, or in converse ways and not in the same direction, as in C where the fore bend forwards and the hind bend backwards, or as in D, the opposite way to C, where the convexities are turned towards one another and the concavities outwards.

On the Gait of Animals 2002

Fore and hind may bend either both backwards, as the figures marked A, or in the opposite way both forwards, as in B, or in converse ways and not in the same direction, as in C where the fore bend forwards and the hind bend backwards, or as in D, the opposite way to C, where the convexities are turned towards one another and the concavities outwards.

On the Gait of Animals 2002

The arms are situated to right and left, and bend inwards: so that the convexities formed by bent arms and legs are practically face to face with one another in the case of man.

The History of Animals 2002

Mass in the form of vapor was fuming and boiling away from the vast gentle convexities of its sides.

The Magic May Return Niven, Larry 1981