Concavo-convex: alternatives and connections

Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinaril…

Calciferous. Specifically: (Zool.) of or pertaining to the portion of the oviduct which forms the eggshell in birds and reptiles.

An apparatus in which the images of external objects, formed by a convex lens or a concave mirror, are thrown on a paper or other whit…

To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.

A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.

Concave or hollow on both sides; double concave.

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

Convex on one side, and concave on the other. The curves of the convex and concave sides may be alike or may be different. See Meniscu…

Convex on both sides; double convex. See under Convex, a.

Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.

To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent.

In the form of a crescent; like a crescent.

To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily.

The point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary.

(architecture) a molding for a cornice; in profile it is shaped like an S (partly concave and partly convex)

a cyma in which the upper section is concave and the lower section is convex

a molding that (in section) has the shape of an S with the convex part above and the concave part below