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.
- 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.
- The frame and the sheath may be in the form of a portion of a convex curve.
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