Convex [adjective]

It is sometimes indented, with its convex side in contact with the periphery of the cell.

Ellis's patent boot studs to save the sole, and the Euknemida, or concave-convex fastening springs, are the latest novelties.

From his waistcoat pocket he took a little silver convex mirror and surveyed himself critically therein.

This insect is much less in size than the former, and is more convex.

The body is very convex:, having the thorax as wide as the abdomen, subquadrate, with very convex sides.

Of the two broader sides one was concave, the other convex; while of the narrower sides one was flat and the other indented.

The outlines of things under these rainbow-tinted undulations produced the chromatic effects of optical glasses made too convex.

Lay the two blades together with the convex sides touching in the center and insert them in the slit in the handle end.

Here a brigade was in a half-circle with a concave side to the enemy; another presented a convex front to attack.

Those keen young eyes conveyed the impression of convex mirrors.