How To Use Concavity In A Sentence
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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
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-- In cutting the letters on this large plate of Bronze, they have, to gain room, made no distance between the words, but shewn the division only by a little touch thus < with the graver; and where a word eroded with a C, or G, they have put the touch within the concavity of the letter, otherwise it is admirably well executed.
A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2)
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The photolabeling of the AdoMet-binding sites displayed homotropic negative cooperativity, characterized by a curvilinear Scatchard plot with upward concavity.
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The ancient Greeks used a technique known as entasis which incorporates a slight convexity in the columns of the Parthenon to compensate for the illusion of concavity created by parallel lines.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Really cool collection of Illusions and Paradoxes
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Lateral to the caruncula is a slight semilunar fold of conjunctiva, the concavity of which is directed toward the cornea; it is called the plica semilunaris.
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 3. The Accessory Organs of the Eye
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A perpendicular is erected from the end plate of the most caudal vertebrae, whose inferior end plate tilts maximally to the concavity of the curve (inferior end vertebrae).
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The play of concavity and convexity is announced by a pair of Tanktotems, watchful, hieratic personages built out of slender, vertical steel components and sliced tank ends.
Works of Many Dimensions
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Response directed at Mike: the 'fossa' I was referring to is not the osteological concavity that you are thinking of, but the Madagascan euplerid carnivoran Cryptoprocta ferox.
Giant hoatzins of doom
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[MICROCRINUS CONOIDEUS] Body conical; sub-pentangular at base; areas five, oblique; pores six or seven to each, alternating and arranged in rows, separated by a ridge; apical pores five, base wide; beneath concave; concavity intersected by five bars, which descend and meet in the center; spaces between, triangular, terminating above in the apical pores.
Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
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In D. herschelensis, the concavity of the articular face of the vertebrae is not as deep as in P. latipinnis.
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Learn about gradient, structure, concavity, and maybe even make your chicken-scratch a little more legible, no matter what your gender.
Boing Boing
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His memory was able to adhere to her smoothness, to her rough parts, to her every swelling and concavity, but only in a way that was like an ache—or like a hunger trying to feed upon itself.
Here Comes Another Lesson
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During more and more open pit transiting to concavity open mining, people make much account of the study on the best slope mechanical configuration, which in favor of the stability of concavity slope.
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Positive own-price flexibilities violate quasi concavity of the underlying distance function, although the fact that these estimates are essentially zero moderates this concern.
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Also, if snubness be a concavity of the nose, and there be a snub nose, there is therefore a ‘concave-nose nose’.
On Sophistical Refutations
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Response directed at Mike: the 'fossa' I was referring to is not the osteological concavity that you are thinking of, but the Madagascan euplerid carnivoran Cryptoprocta ferox.
Giant hoatzins of doom
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The concavity of the retina is another fact adduced in favour of the theory that our visual space is curved.
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The superior articular surfaces of the navicular, lunate, and triangular form a smooth convex surface, the condyle, which is received into the concavity.
III. Syndesmology. 1F. Radiocarpal Articulation or Wrist-joint
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Casting to and fro, he soon found what he expected, a concavity in the tumbled snow like material, slightly aboil.
The Clique
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E.g. there is the nose, and concavity, and snubness, which is compounded out of the two by the presence of the one in the other, and it is not by accident that the nose has the attribute either of concavity or of snubness, but in virtue of its nature; nor do they attach to it as whiteness does to Callias, or to man (because Callias, who happens to be a man, is white), but as ‘male’ attaches to animal and
Metaphysics
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Koilonychia is represented by transverse and longitudinal concavity of the nail, resulting in a ‘spoon-shaped’ nail.
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With one fierce and skilful kick of his aching foot he will mend a deep concavity in the refrigerator's flank.
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Then the T wave becomes broad and the ST segment elevates, losing its normal concavity.
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Between the origin of the left subclavian artery and the attachment of the ductus arteriosus the lumen of the fetal aorta is considerably narrowed, forming what is termed the aortic isthmus, while immediately beyond the ductus arteriosus the vessel presents a fusiform dilation which His has named the aortic spindlethe point of junction of the two parts being marked in the concavity of the arch by an indentation or angle.
VI. The Arteries. 2. The Aorta
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E.g. of concavity flesh (for this is the matter in which it is produced) is not a part, but of snubness it is a part; and the bronze is a part of the concrete statue, but not of the statue when this is spoken of in the sense of the form.
Metaphysics
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The central part of the posterior surface presents a deep concavity which is moulded on the vertebral column and crura of the diaphragm.
XI. Splanchnology. 2i. The Liver
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The concavity of the ventral interarea and shell outline varies considerably in this species.
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With respect to the pseudoscope -- which makes the outside of a teacup appear as the inside, and the inside as the outside; which transforms convexity into concavity, and the reverse; and a sculptured face into a hollow mask; which makes the tree in your garden appear inside your room, and the branches farthest off come nearest to the eye; and which, when you look at your pictures, represents them as sunk into a deep recess in the wall, -- with respect to this instrument, its practical uses have yet to be discovered.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426 Volume 17, New Series, February 28, 1852
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For snubness is not a concave nose but something (e.g. an affection) belonging to a nose: hence, there is no absurdity in supposing that the snub nose is a nose possessing the concavity that belongs to a nose.
On Sophistical Refutations
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The key observation here is that Hadrocodium has no trough or concavity.
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Instead, a very shallow longitudinal concavity is present along the midventral surface.
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The labial surfaces of the plates are smooth, slightly convex both mesially and distally with a shallow concavity between.
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The degree of concavity is measured by the proportionate rate of decrease of the slope, that is, the rate at which the slope decreases divided by the slope itself.
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It only reflects the consequence of an empirical fact, the degree of concavity of individual utility functions.
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Some of the variation evident on the extant pins, such as the degree of concavity / convexity of head tops and the presence, size, and definition of shoulder elements, may lend itself to analysis given an appropriate size sample.
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With one fierce and skilful kick of his aching foot he will mend a deep concavity in the refrigerator's flank.
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Ontogenetic thickening of branches reduces the degree of dorsal concavity.
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Scanning electron micrographs of the discs of the tube feet of Odontaster validus revealed varying degrees of concavity.
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Lateral to the caruncula is a slight semilunar fold of conjunctiva, the concavity of which is directed toward the cornea; it is called the plica semilunaris.
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1c. 3. The Accessory Organs of the Eye
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The flow-volume curves usually show a marked decrease in flow with decreasing lung volumes, typically evidenced by concavity of the expiratory portion of the flow curve.
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With increasing quantiles, the quadratic coefficient became more negative, implying increased concavity of the inverted parabolic function.
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Keel angle and body concavity / convexity measurements (described above) were recorded from CT scans at several locations along the body.
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If pelvises are present, compare: the male pelvic girdle will have wider ischio-pubic ramus, while the female will have a defined ventral crest, a curved subpubic concavity, & a wide sciatic notch.
Mordicai: crown me king!
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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
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Ovary inferior, held in the concavity of the receptacle, one-celled, with 1 seed, crowned by an epigynous disc, above which rises a simple style with dilated stigma.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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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
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There is a characteristic anterior pointing and medial concavity of the frontal horns, seen on the coronal scans.
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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
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‘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.
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Lewis, I understand you were talking about the slope concavity of the Champs Elysee…
Olympic Line (short) closure notice « Stephen Rees's blog
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A polarity is set up between the assertive convex solidity of Broadcasting House and the receptive concavity and lightness of the suspended facade.
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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
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It occupies another concavity 10 km west of Lake Enriquillo, separated from it by the Jimaní anticline.
Haiti
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The upturned cardiac apex and the pulmonary artery concavity cause the appearance of a ‘boot shaped’ heart which is usually seen in the older child or the patient with pseudotruncus.
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Casting to and fro, he soon found what he expected, a concavity in the tumbled snow like material, slightly aboil.
The Clique
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Both Dr Lee and Dr Moore-Gillon agreed that the flow volume loops produced in the MAP LFTs showed some concavity, which was suggestive of airflow obstruction.
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It occupies another concavity 10 km west of Lake Enriquillo, separated from it by the Jimaní anticline.
Haiti
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Immediately anterior to this buttress, a small, deep concavity is located along the anterodorsal margin of the acetabulum.
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From a hill-like rise at left to the pyramidal structure and round-lipped concavity on the right, the work does so by emphasizing this Arizona as a feminized site.
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The amygdaloid body is an ovoid gray nuclear mass, oriented transversely and with a slight posterior concavity.
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A deep labial concavity is present between the two projections.
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On the atrial septum may be seen a lunated impression, bounded below by a crescentic ridge, the concavity of which is turned upward.
V. Angiology. 4b. The Heart
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The play of concavity and convexity is announced by a pair of Tanktotems, watchful, hieratic personages built out of slender, vertical steel components and sliced tank ends.
Works of Many Dimensions
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However, survival curves for all the mutants showed some upward concavity, which would be consistent with a resistant subpopulation of cells.
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On its upper side is seen a concavity which is produced by the section of the groove which runs along the convex and exterior (here upper) side of each branchial arch. ba, branchial artery in section, giving off the gill arteries (ga) to the adjacent sides of the gill leaflets, whence the blood is distributed in the leaflets; gv, the gill veins which run along the outer side of the gill leaflets, collecting the blood from them by minute veins and pouring it into bv, the branchial vein, which runs up the groove of the branchial arch and has the branchial artery superficial and exterior to it.
The Common Frog
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On the symphyseal side, the concavity abuts a ridge that borders the straight symphyseal surface of the plate.
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The cervical centra are amphicoelous, but do not have the deep, bowl-shaped concavity as in Polycotylus.
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I use the Champs Elysees because of the “concavity” in the long axis of the road Main Street is a hill—I saw somewhere that in pioneer days riding down the hill on trams was free, but you had to pay to go up.
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