Used in a Sentence

concavity

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for concavity.

Editorial note

By concavity, there are values of X for which the former inequality holds and the latter does not.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

(uncountable) The state of being concave

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of concavity gathered in one view.

noun

(uncountable) The state of being concave

noun

(countable) A concave structure or surface

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for concavity.

Example sentences

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By concavity, there are values of X for which the former inequality holds and the latter does not.

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Like you said, high concavity and significant self-occlusion are two cases that are more likely to fail.

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Old, industrial work: favor concavity because the limiting factor is how much capital you have to put at risk.

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Measuring concavity/convexity of a generic 2D surface object doesn't seem to be a very common operation.

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It's not like either glass facades with some degree of concavity are unusual or being singed by them is common.

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They are power laws with positive concavity, requiring exponential increase in data and parameters for marginal improvements on test loss.

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This version of concavity depends largely on the shapes of the states around it (e.g.

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The slightest concavity will cause the algorithm to stall at a local minimum.

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The texturing and concavity on the Steam controller will make that much easier.

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Maybe the concavity reduces accidental keypresses when the phone's in one's pocket/bag.

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It implies that you want some mix of risky and non-risky assets; while concavity towards risk would imply you want either one or the other.

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Teams can have convexity or concavity effects - that is, they have the opportunity to make you a lot more successful or a lot more unsuccessful.

Quote examples

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The length of the largest such line is the "concavity" of the state.

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The largest such area is the "concavity" of the state.

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If you define "poorer" as "less output collectively produced" then the parent's point about the concavity of utility would hold and imply that society as a whole would indeed become poorer.

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> Since I've written code to render filled polygons before (concavity is a fun corner case), I assumed this was what it was referring to, I was told it is part of the web startup, full-stack hipster vocabulary, because "shim" is just not cool enough and a new word was needed.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use concavity in a sentence?

By concavity, there are values of X for which the former inequality holds and the latter does not.

What does concavity mean?

(uncountable) The state of being concave

What part of speech is concavity?

concavity is commonly used as noun.