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Specifically, having such a combination of concave and convex sides as makes the focal axis the shortest line between them. See Illust. under Lens.

An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.

The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. Locke.

A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy.

The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.

The act of joining, or state of being joined; union; connection; combination. The conjuncture of philosophy and divinity. Hobbes. A fit conjuncture or circumstances. Addison.

To signify or denote in combination with something else. The cipher . . . only serves to connote and consignify, and to change the value or the figures. Horne Tooke.

That which stands together as a united whole; a combination. The church of God, as meaning whole consistence of orders and members. Milton.

A consolidated annuity (see Consols); -- chiefly in combination or attributively.

consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the stone did not fall out at random. Woodward. The consolidation of the great European monarchies. Hallam.

Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. "By Heaven's consort." Fuller. "Working in consort." Hare. Take it singly, and is carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, has a meaning quite different. Atterbury.

A combination of men for an evil purpose; as agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot. When shapen was all his conspiracy From point to point. Chaucer. They made a conspiracy against [Amaziah]. 2 Kings xiv. 19. I had forgot that foul conspiracy Of the beast Caliban and hi…

Proportionate mixture or combination. "Contemperation of light and shade." Boyle.

The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock. [Broker's Cant] Corner stone, the stone which lies at the corn…

Union; combination; a coupling; a pair. [Obs.] Shak. And forth together rode, a goodly couplement. Spenser.

A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons.

wspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.

Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.

Presenting a combination of a cube and an octahedron.

A combination of a cube and octahedron, esp. one in which the octahedral faces meet at the middle of the cubic edges.