concavity

How To Use concavity In A Sentence

• Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
• It fills the concavity of the retina, and is hollowed in front, forming a deep concavity, the hyaloid fossa, for the reception of the lens. X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 2. The Refracting Media
• A polarity is set up between the assertive convex solidity of Broadcasting House and the receptive concavity and lightness of the suspended facade.
• Lewis, I understand you were talking about the slope concavity of the Champs Elysee… Olympic Line (short) closure notice « Stephen Rees's blog
• ‘Lower’ refers to the side of the test to which the neck curves; Figure 7 provides an example of how length, width, concavity and curvature are measured.
• The space inside a hot water bottle, when cast, simply produces a duplicate bottle; the space around a bath only reproduces its familiar concavity. Rachel Whiteread: Drawings
• There is a characteristic anterior pointing and medial concavity of the frontal horns, seen on the coronal scans.
• The body protoplasm is generally crescentic; there are two chromatin masses, the larger one, the nucleus, on the side of the convexity, the other narrower, more deeply stained situated usually on the edge of the concavity, the centrosome. Alphonse Laveran - Nobel Lecture
• With one fierce and skilful kick of his aching foot he will mend a deep concavity in the refrigerator's flank.
• Here it lies along the concavity of the hippocampus, on the surface of which some of its fibers are spread out to form the alveus, while the remainder are continued as a narrow white band, the fimbria hippocampi, which is prolonged into the uncus of the hippocampal gyrus. IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon