concavity

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When I was little I imagined that this concavity was the bottom of the world, a great repository of everything seduced by gravity (autumn leaves, stray angels popping by to listen in to someone's television on the iron bars of the balconies).

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  1. noun The state of being curved like the inner surface of a sphere.
  2. noun A surface or structure configured in such a curve: "a perfect concavity of white sand lined with palm . . . trees” (Islands).

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  • This week, as our colleague pointed out, they will be facing Pat White, who is to Sean Glennon at qb Jennifer Lopez's 2000-level back-bumper is Lara Flynn Boyle's buttular concavity: an entirely different species capable of performing witchcraft, serving as an air-traffic controller without wearing a headset, and currently serving as Minister of Culture in several African nations. —  EDSBS
  • The shampoo sink's concavity, for example, is designed to accept a human neck. —  Paula's House of Toast
  • The lens employs a new outer design that is more refined and smoother in its overall contours by minimizing concavity, convexity and variations in its profile to match various digital SLR cameras. —  News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
  • Excluding differences in size, translation, and orientation, these are: elongation, bending (concavity), and shifts in mass distribution. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • When I was little I imagined that this concavity was the bottom of the world, a great repository of everything seduced by gravity (autumn leaves, stray angels popping by to listen in to someone's television on the iron bars of the balconies). —  Natalia Antonova
 

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  1. = French concavité = Provencal concavitat = Spanish concavidad = Portuguese concavidade = Italian concavità, from Late Latin concavita(t-)s, from concavus, concave: see concave, adjective
 

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