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Definitions for concavity
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvaturenoun

    a shape that curves or bends inward

  2. concavity, concavenessnoun

    the property possessed by a concave shape

Wiktionary

  1. concavitynoun

    The state of being concave

  2. concavitynoun

    A concave structure or surface

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Concavitynoun

    Internal surface of a hollow spherical or spheroidical body.

    Etymology: from concave.

    They have taken the impresses of these shells with that exquisite niceness, that no metal, when melted and cast in a mould, can ever possibly represent the concavity of that mould with greater exactness than these flints do the concavities of the shells, wherein they were moulded. John Woodward, Natural History.

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  1. concavity

    Concavity is a geometric property that describes the curvature of a shape or function. If a curve or surface is bent or curved inward, it is said to be concave. For a function, it refers to a region where the function's rate of increase or decrease is accelerating and its second derivative is less than zero. If the curve or surface bends outward or the second derivative is greater than zero, it is called convex instead. The terms concavity and convexity are used in various fields such as mathematics, physics, economics etc. to describe the nature of graph, surface or a shape.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Concavitynoun

    a concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave

  2. Etymology: [L. concavitas: cf. F. concavit. See Concave.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of concavity in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of concavity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

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