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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.

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

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  • 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.

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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

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

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