different between concave vs indented

English

Etymology

From Middle English concave, from Old French concave, from Latin concavus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??ke?v/

Adjective

concave (comparative more concave, superlative most concave)

1. curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl
2. (geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees.
3. (functional analysis, not comparable, 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.
4. hollow; empty

Antonyms

• convex

Derived terms

• concavely
• concaveness
• concavity

Translations

Noun

concave (plural concaves)

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).

4. (manufacturing) An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
5. (surfing) An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
6. (skateboarding) An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength.
7. (gambling) A playing card made concave for use in cheating.

   Coordinate term: convex

Translations

Verb

concave (third-person singular simple present concaves, present participle concaving, simple past and past participle concaved)

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

Derived terms

• concaver

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French concave, borrowed from Latin concavus.

Adjective

concave (plural concaves)

1. concave

Descendants

• ? Turkish: konkav

Further reading

• “concave” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

concave

1. feminine plural of concavo

Latin

Adjective

concave

1. vocative masculine singular of concavus

English

Verb

indented

1. simple past tense and past participle of indent

Adjective

indented (comparative more indented, superlative most indented)

1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
2. Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act IV, Scene 3,^[3]

     Seeing Orlando, it [the snake] unlinked itself

     And with indented glides did slip away

     Into a bush;

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 8, lines 494-497,^[4]

     So spake the Enemie of Mankind, enclos’d

     In Serpent, Inmate bad, and toward Eve

     Address’d his way, not with indented wave,

     Prone on the ground, as since, but on his reare,

3. (heraldry) Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated.

4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured.

5. (zoology) Notched along the margin with a different color, like the feathers of some birds.

Synonyms

• (cut in the edge into points): erose, serrated; see also Thesaurus:notched

Anagrams

• detinned, intended