Definition of concave

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Concave (n.) A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll.

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Tocororo :: Tocororo (n.) A cuban trogon (Priotelus temnurus) having a serrated bill and a tail concave at the end.
Lunette :: Lunette (n.) A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles..
Concavation :: Concavation (n.) The act of making concave.
Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state..
Concave :: Concave (n.) A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll.
Fillet :: Fillet (n.) A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner..
Gullet :: Gullet (n.) A concave cut made in the teeth of some saw blades.
Saddleback :: Saddleback (n.) Anything saddle-backed; esp., a hill or ridge having a concave outline at the top..
Bruiser :: Bruiser (n.) A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes.
Concave :: Concave (n.) A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess.
Dish :: Dish (n.) The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel..
Concavo-concave :: Concavo-concave (a.) Concave or hollow on both sides; double concave.
Gorge :: Gorge (n.) A concave molding; a cavetto.
Thecodontia :: Thecodontia (n. pl.) A group of fossil saurians having biconcave vertebrae and the teeth implanted in sockets.
Efflower :: Efflower (v. t.) To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather..
Amphicoelous :: Amphicoelous (a.) Having both ends concave; biconcave; -- said of vertebrae.
Dishing :: Dishing (a.) Dish-shaped; concave.
Cove :: Cove (v. t.) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
Concavous :: Concavous (a.) Concave.
Plano-concave :: Plano-concave (a.) Plane or flat on one side, and concave on the other; as, a plano-concave lens. See Lens..
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