Concave
/ˈkɒŋkeɪv/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:14 ptsWWF:18 pts7 letters
Definition of Concave
noun
- A concave surface or curve.
- The vault of the sky.
- 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)."
- An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
- An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
adjective
- Curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl
- (of a polygon) not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees.
- (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.
- Hollow; empty
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convex