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Example sentences for "concavity"

Lexicographically close words:
concatenation; concatenations; concave; concaved; concavities; conceal; conceale; concealed; concealer; concealers
  1. Dorsal concavity of base as viewed from proximal end usually deeper than ventral concavity.

  2. The mass terminates suddenly somewhat behind middle of rostrum with a deep concavity placed obliquely.

  3. The mesirostral ossification is but slightly developed, the prenarial concavity moderate, the teeth small, slender, and cylindrical, with closed roots and a diameter of 14 mm.

  4. The nest was merely a concavity in sphagnum moss depressed by the weight of the bird.

  5. But when you conceive convexity, in that fact you conceive concavity also, and vice versa.

  6. Indeed, if our critic were to observe convexity as he proposes that we observe sensation, he would find no implication of concavity in it; nor would he find it convex.

  7. We confess three obvious differences between the two equations which we have taken to represent our critic’s conception of the relation of convexity to concavity and the relation of consciousness to matter.

  8. A B, D H represent two parallel rays incident on the concave surface B H, whose centre of concavity is C.

  9. The lateral depressor muscle is attached to several quite distinct crests, seated in a concavity beneath the adductor ridge.

  10. Abscess is apt to follow, both under the integument, and in the concavity of the bone, and the chief duty of the surgeon is to prevent this if possible.

  11. New bone is deposited in the concavity of the curve, at first in irregular masses, but afterwards becoming condensed, and assuming a more regular form, the column is thereby supported and strengthened.

  12. In the same way the reparation of fractures not accurately adjusted goes on most actively in the concavity formed by their displacement.

  13. If the camp be pitched beside a stream, a concave bend, where the water is deep, with a soft alluvial bed inclosed by high and abrupt banks, will be the most defensible, and all the more should the concavity form a peninsula.

  14. The concavity of the bend will enable the defending party to cross its fire in case of attack from the exposed side.

  15. It will be observed that Professor Tait said that the amount of beneficial spin is "seriously diminished by even a trifling upward concavity of the path of the head during the ten-thousandth of a second occupied by the blow.

  16. We can then proceed to notice the really important remark made that "the amount of beneficial spin is seriously diminished by even a trifling upward concavity of the path of the head during the ten-thousandth of a second occupied by the blow.

  17. By this term is indicated a condition of the foot where the natural concavity of the sole is absent.

  18. In this case the horn of the heels, instead of running down in a straight line from the coronary margin to the bearing surface of the wall, presents a more or less distinct concavity (See Fig.

  19. That expression indicates that the bars have been removed, and the lateral lacunæ of the frog made to continue the concavity of the sole.

  20. The apparatus consists of a round shallow pan of copper or brass, having a receptacle for the oil at its lowest part and a lip on one side for pouring, and studded on its concavity by strong blunt spikes.

  21. A crescentic piece of skin is marked out on the lower lid by two incisions which have their concavity directed upwards.

  22. To indicate the position of the point of the catheter in the post-nasal space, a ring is attached to its outer and wider extremity corresponding with the concavity of the curvature of its beak (Fig.

  23. The dull-edged detacher is shown separating the mucous membrane from the concavity of the deflexion.

  24. When the papillary hypertrophy is more diffuse it is apt to be concealed in the concavity of the turbinal.

  25. The instrument is inserted in such a fashion that the hook is directed upwards, having its concavity backwards.

  26. He became conscious that he was standing in the concavity of a huge upright cylinder, with a surface of corrugated rotten wood circling all around him.

  27. Ditto, with rounded bottom, enlarged middle and small concavity on apex.

  28. Ditto, with double concavity for red and black colors.

  29. The nostrils project forward and outward and there is a distinct concavity between the two crescent-shaped orifices.

  30. The ear has a rounded tip, and a shallow concavity on the upper part of the hind margin; the lance-shaped tragus is about half the length of the ear.

  31. In old, chronic cases, with a shrunken frog and increased concavity of the sole, accompanied with excessive wasting of all the internal tissues of the foot, satisfactory results can not be expected and are rarely obtained.

  32. The lower end is about three times as wide as the top and is deeply concave in the middle and convex in outline from this concavity to the side edges.

  33. They have, in fact, all the appearance of having been used with coarse sand for grinding a concavity in another stone, such, for instance, as the concave face of the stone axe shown in Fig.

  34. The basal concavity is formed by the removal of broad flakes.

  35. Large flakes were often removed in forming the basal concavity and several short narrow flakes were removed to form a steeply flaked basal edge.

  36. Of the nine measured examples, seven have a basal concavity 1.

  37. The basal edge of the stem was flaked to form a concavity and then thinned.

  38. This resulted in a basal concavity (Cambron and Hulse, 1961a).

  39. The concavity of all those dunes was on the north-east side.

  40. A double whirlpool of great magnitude was formed at the bottom of the rapid, the water revolving with such force that the concavity was gradually depressed for some 3 ft.

  41. We had fallen into a concavity similar to those of the marshes, but successive depositions had almost filled it, and no longer subject to inundation, it had lost all the character of those flooded tracts.

  42. The convexity of its posterior surface is received into an equal concavity of the vitreous humour.

  43. A book of the concavity and globosity formed round various objects at the bottom.

  44. In every concavity at the summit of the mountains we shall always find the divisions of the strata in the rocks.

  45. Of inequality in the concavity of a ship.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "concavity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alveolus; basin; boss; bowl; bump; cavity; circularity; colophon; concavity; convexity; convolution; crater; crypt; cup; degradation; depression; descent; diminution; dint; dip; fingerprint; fold; follicle; footprint; footstep; hole; hollow; impress; impression; imprint; indent; indentation; lacuna; lowering; lump; pad; pimple; pit; pocket; print; reduction; sag; scoop; seal; shell; signet; sink; sinking; sinus; socket; stamp; step; stud; submergence; trough; vaulting; vestige