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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The state of being convex.
  • noun A convex surface, body, part, or line.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character or state of being convex; roundness; sphericity. Also sometimes convexness, convexedness.
  • noun The exterior surface or form of a convex body.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun the state of being convex
  • noun a convex line or surface
  • noun a measure of the curvature in the relationship between the prices and yields of bonds

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the property possessed by a convex shape
  • noun a shape that curves or bulges outward

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Examples

  • Traders said hedging related to mortgage debt, or so-called convexity selling, also played a part Wednesday in pressuring Treasury yields higher.

    Treasurys Sink as Euro-Zone Worries Fade Deborah Lynn Blumberg 2010

  • In the so-called convexity hedging, mortgage securities holders sell Treasurys to hedge against rising rates.

    Inflation Concerns Snare Bonds 2008

  • 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.

    What's new 2009

  • Hence hypotheses normally refer to some qualitative properties of the functions that allegedly emerge from the formalism, such as convexity or monotony.

    Neoclassical economic theory 2008

  • 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.

    The Code Project Latest Articles Arash Partow 2009

  • 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.

    iMechanica - Comments Zhennan Zhang 2009

  • 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.

    iMechanica - Comments 2009

  • 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.

    Works of Many Dimensions Karen Wilkin 2011

  • Since mortgage security owners are short the option (the opposite of borrowers, who are long the option), they use the term "negative convexity."

    Mortgage Depreciation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • I can understand the convexity of the graph bryce Says:

    Piranhas, chainsaws, wolves, knives, whatnot. 2009

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