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Definition

angled or curving outward

Convex mirrors make things look smaller and farther away than they are.

Light passing through a convex lens converges at the focal point.
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
Borromini altered convex and concave surfaces to create the illusion of movement.
The knife, which is shaped like a crescent, that cuts with the convex side, falls from a less height, and that is all the difference.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
MC Escher's drawing "Concave and Convex" experiments with perspective and perception.
This august hump, if I mistake not, rises over one of the larger vertebrae, and is, therefore, in some sort, the outer convex mould of it.
Melville, Herman -- Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV
A triangle is always a convex polygon because it contains all the line segments connecting any pair of its points. That is not necessarily true of a quadrilateral which could have a caved side.
His theory is like an impression of hers; concave where her thoughts are convex and vice versa.
Behind my half-head, in the center of the picture, in the empty sky, a pier glass is hanging, convex and encircled by an ornate frame.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
In that convex fish-eye image, I saw eyes, a nose, cheekbones, lips ....
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
It was soft and convex, and it drew in items placed on top of it.
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones
A very great number of streets which are now convex were then sunken causeways.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
He had coarse features, a blunt nose, a convex and receding brow, tumid and protruded lips.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
Orr studied Yossarian over his shoulder, his moist lips drawn back around convex rows of large buck teeth.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
This august hump, if I mistake not, rises over one of the larger vertebrae, and is, therefore, in some sort, the outer convex mould of it.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
On this he drew Sokos'hard weapon from his flesh and through his convex shield.
Homer -- The Iliad
But everything concave about Buddy had suddenly turned convex.
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar
[*] The knife, which is shaped like a crescent, that cuts with the convex side, falls from a less height, and that is all the difference.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
With a quick motion of his hand he flipped the dough onto a convex frame covered with rags, held by a fourth man.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter

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