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The letter, C is convex on the left side and concave on the right side.concave = curving inward
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Concave mirrors make things look larger and closer than they are.
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MC Escher's drawing "Concave and Convex" experiments with perspective and perception.
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It terminated in a concave breast of rock, nearly vertical and destitute of vegetation.† (source)
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The great height at which the kite hung made a great concave curve in the string...† (source)
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You will perceive, Watson, that the glasses are concave and of unusual strength.† (source)
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It uses concave micro-mirrors with programmable focal lengths.†
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The golf putter has a concave striking surface.†
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Japanese concave cutters are important bonsai tools.†
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It flowed in a gentle concave from the road up the mountain, its farther boundary an unbroken line of timber.† (source)
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A deep depression in the middle, partially filled with water, was ringed by concave slopes that cantilevered dangerously over the water. (source)concave = curving inward
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He touched my head, which is our tradition, but my father was worried, as I had nothing but skin, no bone to protect my brain, and my head beneath the shawl was concave.† (source)
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In other habitats, the rim of sky above the horizontal is broken or obscured; here, together with the overhead portion, it is infinitely vaster than that of rolling countryside and forest lands......In an unobstructed sky the clouds seem more massive, sometimes grandly reflecting the earth's curvature on their concave undersides.† (source)
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"Say, I'm starving," said Boris, standing up and stretching so that a band of stomach showed between his fatigues and ragged shirt: concave, dead white, like a starved saint's.† (source)
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It was a concave rectangle-about four yards by two-like a huge fitted sheet ....the crudest approximation of a parachute imaginable.† (source)
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It was right then, between when I asked about the labyrinth and when she answered me, that I realized the importance of curves, of the thousand places where girls' bodies ease from one place to another, from arc of the foot to ankle to calf, from calf to hip to waist to breast to neck to ski-slope nose to forehead to shoulder to the concave arch of the back to the butt to the etc. I'd noticed curves before, of course, but I had never quite apprehended their significance.† (source)
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