convex
IPA: kʌnvˈɛks
noun
- Any convex body or surface.
- (gambling) A playing card made convex for use in cheating.
- (gambling) A small convex mirror used to cheat by observing other players' cards.
adjective
- Curved or bowed outward like the outside of a bowl, circle, or sphere.
- (functional analysis, not comparable, of a real-valued function on the reals) having an epigraph that is a convex set.
- (geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) having no internal angles greater than 180 degrees.
- (mathematics, not comparable, of a set in Euclidean space) arranged such that for any two points in the set, a straight line between the two points is contained within the set.
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Examples of "convex" in Sentences
- The body whorl is oval and convex.
- The shape of the upper surface is convex.
- The compound is a facetting of the convex hull.
- The echinus is convex and the abacus is square.
- The path is convex in the direction of the recess.
- Such lenses are called convex or converging lenses.
- A polygon that is not convex is called concave or reentrant.
- The cover is deformed to be convex on the inside and is resilient.
- One point in the intersection of the convex hull of and that of is.
- It is guaranteed to be the vertex of the convex hull of the polygon.
- Leipsic, Essling, and Brienne he used a kind of convex order very like
- The frame and the sheath may be in the form of a portion of a convex curve.
- The bowed t bar also called a convex t bar is usually found either in the center or the top of the stem.
- Those are tools useful in the field of convex processing, and more precisely to solve a problem called convex feasbility ...
- Emphasis is on route planning and recognizing dangerous terrain features such as convex rolls, gullies and wind-loaded slopes.
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- As illustrated in the chart below, data going back to 1970 shows that the US Dollar Index (an average of the greenback's value against six of its top counterparts) is higher when US Gross Domestic Product growth rates are either sharply above or below the average of other G7 nations; it is lower when the difference in growth rates declines, revealing a "convex" relationship or a