CONCAVE

7 letters 14 Scrabble points /ˈkɒŋkeɪv/

Definition of CONCAVE

noun
  1. A concave surface or curve.

  2. The vault of the sky.

  3. One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world.

    "Aristotle makes [Fire] to move to the concave of the Moon. - Thomas Salusbury (1661)."

verb
  1. To render concave, or increase the degree of concavity.

adjective
  1. Curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl

  2. (of a polygon) not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees.

  3. (of a real-valued function on the reals) satisfying the property that all segments connecting two points on the function's graph lie below the function.

Source: Wiktionary

Word Details

Letters C O N C A V E
Length 7 letters
Scrabble Score 14 points

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