convexity
IPA: kʌnvˈɛksʌti
noun
- The state of being convex.
- A convex line or surface.
- (finance) A measure of the curvature in the relationship between the prices and yields of bonds.
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Examples of "convexity" in Sentences
- An epicycloid fails to show any convexity at the cusps.
- I can understand the convexity of the graph bryce Says:
- In the so-called convexity hedging, mortgage securities holders sell Treasurys to hedge against rising rates.
- Traders said hedging related to mortgage debt, or so-called convexity selling, also played a part Wednesday in pressuring Treasury yields higher.
- Since mortgage security owners are short the option (the opposite of borrowers, who are long the option), they use the term "negative convexity."
- Hence hypotheses normally refer to some qualitative properties of the functions that allegedly emerge from the formalism, such as convexity or monotony.
- Because the field of scalars is real or complex, vector spaces also come with the notion of convexity, which turns out to be crucial in many aspects of analysis.
- The play of concavity and convexity is announced by a pair of Tanktotems, watchful, hieratic personages built out of slender, vertical steel components and sliced tank ends.
- Depending on the structural nature of the objects such as convexity and disjointness, the resulting clipped object may itself be disjoint or may contain islands and other interesting properties.
- Recently, I am studying on the Gurson Model, but it is a little bit hard for me to understand most part in the paper 'Continuum Theory of Ductile Rupture by Void Nucleation and Growth', I don't know about the spirit of deduction of formulas and some keywords make me confused, like 'convexity'and' normality ',' loci ', many .... jingzheng on Fri, 2009-03-06 17: 00. pvdesnips on Thu, 2009-03-26 08: 21. on Thu, 2009-04-16 07: 06.