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Definition of Concavities
1. concavity [n] - See also: concavity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Concavities
Literary usage of Concavities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"... two or more prominences fitting into corresponding concavities, as the
ankle-joint, and giving no lateral motion. En attendant. [Fr.] While waiting. ..."
2. An Introduction to Geology: Comprising the Elements of the Science in Its by Robert Bakewell, Benjamin Silliman (1829)
"Concavities or Basins in which Coal Strata are deposited.—Intersections by Faults
or Dykes.—Their Effects on Water in Coal Mines.—Peculiar Positions of Coal ..."
3. Mathematical Questions and Solutions by W. J. C. Miller (1893)
"(WG LAX, BA)—If there be two parabolas in a plane, •whose axes are in the same
straight line and concavities turned in opposite directions towards one ..."
4. Geological Travels in Some Parts of France, Switzerland, and Germany by Jean Andre De Luc (1813)
"the road every where contained gravel of those stones intermixed with flints.
The blocks lay in the greatest abundance in large concavities of the same form ..."
5. The Lettsomian lectures on the treatment of some of the forms of valvular by Arthur Ernest Sansom (1883)
"greater at the free edge, and here often the aggregated cells form little very
slight concavities on which rest little caps of fibrin. ..."
6. A Textbook of Clinical Periodontia: A Study of the Causes and Pathology of by Paul Roscoe Stillman, John Oppie McCall (1922)
"But in many instances the approximal surfaces of the roots are either flattened
or may even exhibit concavities running lengthwise. ..."
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