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Definition of Convexo-concave
1. Adjective. Convex on one side and concave on the other with the convexity being greater than the concavity.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Convexo-concave
Literary usage of Convexo-concave
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1839)
"convexo-concave: same as concavo-convex menis- (R). Concavo-convex: same as
convexo concave meniscus Throughout these formulée the sign of К is opposite to ..."
2. Light for Students by Edwin Edser (1920)
"D is termed double- concave, or bi-concave, E is termed plano-concave, or
concavo-plane, and F 1s termed convexo-concave, or concavo-convex. ..."
3. The Threshold of Science: A Variety of Simple and Amusing Experiments by Charles Romley Alder Wright (1891)
"To distinguish the two forms of concavo convex lenses, the first is sometimes
called a meniscus, and the terms concavo convex and convexo concave reserved ..."
4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1870)
"... at least the larger, more characteristic ones, are convexo.concave or ...
and dorsals convexo-concave or ..."
5. Petrifactions and Their Teachings; Or, A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic by Gideon Algernon Mantell (1851)
"In the " Geology of the South-East of England " (p. 307), several large
convexo-concave vertebrae from Tilgate Forest are described as presenting the true ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1885)
"... convexo-concave ; remaining vertebras bi-concave. Three functional digits in
manus and in pes. Ischia with long symphysis on median line. ..."
7. A Text Book of the Principles of Physics by Alfred Daniell (1895)
"172 a. lenses are only truly reversible when the principal focal planes are made
to exchange places; which, since in the case of thin-edged convexo-concave ..."
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