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- noun Plural form of
concavity .
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Examples
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The reverse view turns the concavities of the title into convexities, countering them with horizontal concave planes.
Works of Many Dimensions Karen Wilkin 2011
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When he was satisfied that no damage had been done, he sat on the nearby sofa, studying Sverta†™ s vestigal nostril-slits and the smooth concavities where eyes might have grown.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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And my hero, Werner Herzog, is using 3-D to film prehistoric cave paintings in France, to better show off the concavities of the ancient caves.
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He was beautifully made, with long, graceful bones and flat muscles that flowed smoothly from the curves of chest and shoulder to the slight concavities of belly and thigh.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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The concavities they leave reflect incident radiation from side to side, and thus continue to grow.
The Clique 2010
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When he was satisfied that no damage had been done, he sat on the nearby sofa, studying Sverta†™ s vestigal nostril-slits and the smooth concavities where eyes might have grown.
365 tomorrows » deviantArt Contest Winner : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Sticking from the top of the skull like a piece of card, the sagittal crest seems to have been flanked by shallow concavities on the skull roof.
Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The thing was a complex mess of bony laminae and concavities (termed fossae), few of which were symmetrical when you compared the two sides.
‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part I Darren Naish 2006
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In every detail – the distribution of concavities and foramina, the articulatory surfaces for other bones, the tooth shape, wear pattern and surface microstructure, the internal tooth structure (determined by CT scanning) – the specimen is indisputably dicynodont, and not matched by anything else.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The thing was a complex mess of bony laminae and concavities (termed fossae), few of which were symmetrical when you compared the two sides.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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