Convex

What do we mean by convex?

Having a surface or boundary that curves or bulges outward, as the exterior of a sphere. adjective

In geometry, having no reëntrant angle.

Curved, as a line or surface, in the manner of a circle or sphere when viewed from some point without it; curved away from the point of view; hence, bounded by such a line or surface: as, a convex mirror.

Specifically In zöol. and anatomy, elevated and regularly rounded; forming a segment of a sphere, or nearly so: distinguished from gibbous, which is applied to a less regular elevation.

⟨ L. convexum, prop. neut. of convexus, adj.: see above. A convex body or surface. noun

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. adjective

Convex on both sides; convexo-convex. adjective

A convex body or surface. noun

Curved or bowed outward like the outside of a bowl or sphere or circle adjective

(Of a set of points) such that for any two points in the set, every point between those two points is also in the set adjective

(of a real-valued function on the reals) such that the value at any point, is no larger than the interpolated value thereat, based on the values at any two points between which the first point is contained adjective

Any convex body or surface. noun

Curving or bulging outward adjective

Any convex body or surface.

Some bozo or something Urban Dictionary

A Guy/Girl Who you used to talk to. ....a conversational ex. Urban Dictionary

Literally just a penis Urban Dictionary

A room or enclosed space designed for human occupancy. Urban Dictionary

A similar arrangement of nonintersecting regular planar convex polygons of two or more different types about each polyhedron vertex Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to convex:
convex, convey, connex, contex, conex, konvex.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word convex:
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Words that rhyme with convex:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe convex:
more, less, double, little, concavo, somewhat, dorsal, weakly, plano, non, upper, posterior, concave, broad, low, closed, smooth, very, outer, oval, most, ventral, lower, straight, flat, anterior, front, highly, short, circular, compact, curved, narrow, quasi, smallest, wide, inner, lateral, left, interorbital, thin, slightly, profile, thick, anteriorly, frontal, female, depressed, distal, oblong, uniformly, shaped, pileus, clypeus, axial, slight, smaller, base, ovate, round, irregularly, polyhedral, upward, inferior, nonempty, strongest, elongate, dorsum, slighdy, quite, body, empty, head, pygidium, triangular, brachial, rounded, longer, bare.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective convex:
surface, lens, side, lenses, shape, sides, form, glass, function, edge, body, margin, border, face, surfaces, base, functions, sets, mirror, profile, set, upwards, section, curve, combination, glasses, curves, wall, downwards, edges, polygons, mirrors, problems, head, angle, contour, space, meniscus, whorls, slope, problem, forwards, hull, figure, slopes, outward, spaces, polygon, bricks, curvature, forehead, object, programming, outwards, regions, corner, portion, plate, valve, concave, domain, margins, outline, scrapers, preferences, cone, region, combinations, quadrilateral, objects, polyhedra, walls, nose, appearance, hulls, plates, disc, subset, shoulder, bodies, scraper, colonies, faces, costs, programs, moulding, ridge, profiles, mass, shapes, knife, boundary, piece.

Consonant match to convex:
convokes.

Words that sound like convex:
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