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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Convex \Con"vex\, noun A convex body or surface.
Half heaven's convex glitters with the flame. --Tickell.
Note: This word was often pronounced con-vex' by early writers, as by Milton, and occasionally by later poets.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Convex \Con"vex\, adjective [L. convexus vaulted, arched, convex, concave, fr. convehere to bring together: cf. F. convexe. See {Vehicle}.] Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave.
Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a convex surface. --Whewell.
{Double convex}, convex on both sides; convexo-convex.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
convex
adjective: curving or bulging outward [syn: {bulging}] [ant: {concave}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "convex": arched, arciform, arclike, arcual, bandy, bellied, bellylike, bowed, bowlike, bulging, concave, convexed, embowed, excurvate, excurvated, excurved, gibbose, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, humpy, hunched, hunchy, out-bowed, oxbow, rotund, round, rounded, rounded out, vaulted
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