Convex is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONVEX in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make convex
• make convex
NOUN:
• A convex body or surface.
ADJECTIVE:
• having an outline or surface curved like the exterior of a circle or sphere
• (of a polygon) not having any interior angles greater than 180°.
• curving outwards
• 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.
• curving or bulging outward
• (of a polygon) not having any interior angles greater than 180°.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a surface or body that is convex (curving outward)

Words related to CONVEX

convexed21 convexes20 convexing22 convexly23

Words that contain CONVEX

biconvex22 convexed21 convexes20 convexly23 convexing22 convexity24 convexedly26 convexness22 biconvexity28 convexities23 planoconvex25 convexnesses24 biconvexities27

How to use CONVEX in a sentence

• One side of it was curving inward, as though a convex, black shadow were sweeping across it.
• At length they arranged themselves in a lovely miniature scene in a convex mirror.
• From the sandy bottom was struggling forth a convex shield that, when floating, showed its lower face smooth and yellow.
• It began with vast drops of rain, which were soon succeeded by round hail, and then by convex pieces of ice, which measured three inches in girth.
• The convex lens found at Nimroud shows that they were not unacquainted with magnifying instruments.
• Like the other form of convex shield, it could be slung at the back, and was so carried on marches, on crossing rivers, and other similar occasions.
• The convex part, which was a type of the brain in least forms, was also divided into two beds, as it were, just as the brain in its larger form is divided into hemispheres.
• The convex surface of the crescent is nearest to the thinker, and its two arms stretch out towards the approaching friend as if to embrace him.
• Our dining-tables are semicircular, and the guests are seated on the convex side only.
• The northern boundary of Italy, in its full extent, is the chain of the Alps, which forms a kind of crescent, with the convex side towards Gaul.
• At about two miles distant we came to their open skin boat, which was turned on its side, the convex part towards the wind, and served for their house.
• Ten or a dozen cottonwood saplings are set firmly into the ground, so as to form a slightly curved inclosure with convex side toward the south.
• The sides are convex, slightly so near the center and abruptly so near the circumference.
• A shell ornament, on the convex surface of which a very curious ornamental design has been engraved.
• Profile oval, with a somewhat convex nape, and the face descending in a very slightly concave line.
• When the branches decay, the earth falls in, and the graves are easily known by being concave, instead of convex.
• As the dial is convex it will need protection to prevent injury by rough handling.
• A double convex lens, G, is fitted in a brass tube which should have a sliding fit in another shorter and larger tube fastened to the end of the box.
• In front of George lay a number of large plans, mounted on thick cardboard, whose upper surface had a slight convex curve.
• The convex concentric chest or the pathetic, is the sign of the sufferer, or of him who receives.
• The streets are broad and straight, laid out at right angles, with a pavement of square flags very perfectly laid, slightly convex and drained at each side.
• The island is in the form of a crescent, the convex side towards the north-east.
• Just beyond this town, at Austerlitz, the French were arranged in a semicircle, with the convex front toward the allies, who occupied the outer arc on a range of heights.

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