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Grammar : Noun
Spell : kon-kav-i-tee
Phonetic Transcription : kɒnˈkæv ɪ ti



Définition of concavity

Origin :
  • c.1400, from Old French concavité "hollow, concavity" (14c.) or directly from Latin concavitatem (nominative concavitas), from Latin concavus "hollow" (see concave).
  • noun depression
Example sentences :
  • The shell was slightly concave, the concavity turned to the front.
  • Extract from : « The Scalp Hunters » by Mayne Reid
  • And otherwise unlike a volcanic crater is the concavity itself.
  • Extract from : « The Lone Ranche » by Captain Mayne Reid
  • It is circular, and is placed on the concavity of the ventral flexure.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 » by Francis Maitland Balfour
  • Petals numerous, small, 1-lipped, the concavity near the base.
  • Extract from : « The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States » by Asa Gray
  • Three, however, had had their concavity partly whittled flat.
  • Extract from : « Mohave Pottery » by Alfred L. Kroeber
  • The Bee seems to make a point of this concavity, for it serves as a mould to receive the curved bottom of the next cell.
  • Extract from : « Bramble-bees and Others » by J. Henri Fabre
  • Very shortly a cup-shaped form is assumed, the concavity of which is lined by the more columnar cells.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume III (of 4) » by Francis Maitland Balfour
  • The iliac crest, extending directly from one spine to the other, is curved, its concavity being turned upwards.
  • Extract from : « Artistic Anatomy of Animals » by douard Cuyer
  • The lateral iliac fossa is the concavity below the overhanging lateral iliac process.
  • Extract from : « Variation in the Muscles and Nerves of the Leg in » by E. Bruce Holmes
  • The iliac recess is a concavity dorsolateral to the sharply curving posterior end of the internal ilio-ischiatic crest.
  • Extract from : « Variation in the Muscles and Nerves of the Leg in » by E. Bruce Holmes

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