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t, 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.

Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form. Sir T. Browne.

In a convex form; convexly. Sir T. Browne.

Convexity.

The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness. A smooth, uniform convexity and rotundity of a globe. Bentley.

In a convex form; as, a body convexly shaped.

The state of being convex; convexity.

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 Meniscus.

Convex on botConvex, a.

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

Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens.

Concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or a crescent.

Plane or flat on one side, and convex on the other; as, a plano-convex lens. See Convex, and Lens.

said of tissue. Achromatic lens (Opt.), a lens composed usually of two separate lenses, a convex and concave, of substances having different refractive and dispersive powers, as crown and flint glass, with the curvatures so adjusted that the chromatic aberration produced by the one is corrected by other, and light emer…

Anaclastic glass, a glass or phial, shaped like an inverted funnel, and with a very thin convex bottom. By sucking out a little air, the bottom springs into a concave form with a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the orifice, the bottom, with a like noise, springs into its former convex form.…

the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses. Dunglison.

A convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle.

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

Having the striking surface convex; -- said of hammers.

The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back. Belly doublet, a doublet of the 16th century, hanging down so as to cover the belly. Shak. -- Belly fretting, the chafing of a horse's belly with a girth. Johnson. -- Belly timber, food. [Ludicrous] Prior. -- Belly worm, a worm that br…