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angled or curving inward

Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, Second Series

The golf putter has a concave striking surface.
It uses concave micro-mirrors with programmable focal lengths.
It terminated in a concave breast of rock, nearly vertical and destitute of vegetation.
Bierce, Ambrose -- Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories
You will perceive, Watson, that the glasses are concave and of unusual strength.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- The Return of Sherlock Holmes
MC Escher's drawing "Concave and Convex" experiments with perspective and perception.
Japanese concave cutters are important bonsai tools.
The great height at which the kite hung made a great concave curve in the string...
Stoker, Bram -- The Lair of the White Worm
It flowed in a gentle concave from the road up the mountain, its farther boundary an unbroken line of timber.
London, Jack -- The Valley of the Moon
A deep depression in the middle, partially filled with water, was ringed by concave slopes that cantilevered dangerously over the water.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
They are used by Fremen to line concave planting depressions where they provide a small but reliable source of water.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
Fixed to the front of it was something that looked like a fencing mask, with the concave side outwards.
George Orwell -- 1984
His face was odd, concave, forehead and chin jutting.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
Robert had spindly arms and legs, a soft concave chest and little belly, and eyes that were always red and runny.
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
Her senses feasted, between changes, on that lean, concave, Christlike body.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
It was a concave rectangle-about four yards by two-like a huge fitted sheet .... the crudest approximation of a parachute imaginable.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
I feel the ropy hardness of his arms, the warmth of his slightly concave chest, as he holds me tight, tighter than anyone has ever held me.
Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
I placed three fingers against his side where the ribcage seemed concave and pressed.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
They'll go after anything that's warm and concave.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
When I raised my arms over my head, my chest became concave.
Nicole Krauss -- The History of Love

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