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Top: a spoon with its convex side up. Bottom: a spoon with its concave side up.A convex set. For any points x and y within the set, the connecting line lies within the set.A convex polygon.
1837, William Whewell, “Earliest Stages of Astronomy”, in History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Times., volume I, London: John W Parker,; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: J. and J. J. Deighton, →OCLC, book III (History of Greek Astronomy), section 9 (The Globular Form of the Earth), page 150:
rops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a convex surface; […]
(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.
1859 November, “Harbours of Refuge”, in The United Service Magazine, page 347:
In like manner the north pier will convex seaward, extending across the bay to the extent of 1000 feet from low water, terminating in about eight fathoms, leaving a clear entrance of 500 feet between the pier heads, the depth of the entrance being from seven to eight fathoms.
1926, David Louis Jones, Diesel Engines, Marine--locomotive--stationary, page 502:
If the valve is ground excessively, the surfaces of the valve and cage will convex so that the sealing contact is poor.
1998, James Stephen Hardy, Stephen T. Hardy, Time-saver Details for Roof Design, page 247:
With thin metal flashing, as it expands, the metal between the fasteners will convex.
(transitive) To cause to form a convex curve or surface; to make convex.
1898 March, Junius, “Tension in Saws”, in The Wood-worker, volume 17, number 1, page 24:
The back edge of the saw being under the lip of the cleat, use the anvil for a fulcrum and press down on the edge of the saw opposite, which will convex the plate, as the springing up concaved it, and the action of the fast and loose will be the reverse; that is, the fast will go down and the loose come up.
1945, John Northern Hilliard, Card Magic: A Practical Treatise on Modern Card Conjuring, page 19:
This will convex the fan and hold the cards more rigidly in place.
2012, Tamir Greenberg, “Elegy”, in Poets on the Edge: An Anthology of Contemporary Hebrew Poetry, page 295:
In one moment the body will convex the checkered blanket, and later—the featureless absence;
2011, Comprehensive Semiconductor Science and Technology, page 156:
The crystal/melt interface thus convexes into the melt; however, the convexity of the interface ( Figure 53 ) is not as strong as it is when the crucible does not rotate (Figure 52).
2014, Amy-Elyse Neer, The Seven Things Cookbook, page 96:
The lid on will convex the heat and you'll need that after it's been chilled.
