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Definition of Convex

1. Adjective. Curving or bulging outward.

Definition of Convex

1. 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.

2. n. A convex body or surface.

Definition of Convex

1. Adjective. curved or bowed outward like the outside of a bowl or sphere or circle ¹

2. Adjective. (mathematics not comparable) (Of a set of points) such that for any two points in the set, every point between those two points is also in the set ¹

3. Adjective. (analysis not comparable) (of a real-valued function on the reals) such that the value at any point, is no larger than the interpolated value thereat, based on the values at any two points between which the first point is contained ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Convex

1. a surface or body that is convex (curving outward) [n -ES]

Medical Definition of Convex

1. Applied to a surface that is evenly curved outward, the segment of a sphere. Origin: L. Convexus, vaulted, arched, convex, fr. Con-veho, to bring together (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Convex

Literary usage of Convex

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1918)
"The theory of order relations in convex regions can be based entirely on Theorem 5. This amounts to developing the consequences of Assumptions I-VIII of ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Trans., 1783), consists of two plano-convex lenses of equal lengths, having their convexities turned towards each other and separated by two-thirds of the ..."

3. Transactions by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1830)
"If the second lens be plano-convex, its convex side towards the first, ... The next is, if the first and second be plano-convex, with their plane sides ..."

4. The microscope and its revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1856)
"1); a lens of this description is called a plano-convex lens; and it will hereafter be shown to possess properties, which render it very useful in the ..."

5. Higher Mathematics for Students of Chemistry and Physics: With Special by Joseph William Mellor (1902)
"The terms concave and convex have here their ordinary meaning. ... 68, along the convex part from A to B, the numerical value of tan a, regularly decreases ..."

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