different between recess vs concavity

English

Etymology

From Latin recessus.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /??i?.s?s/, /??.?s?s/

Noun

recess (countable and uncountable, plural recesses)

1. (countable or uncountable) A break, pause or vacation.
2. An inset, hole, space or opening.

   • a bed […] which stood in a deep recess
3. (US, Australia, Canada) A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground; (Britain) break, playtime.

   Students who do not listen in class will not play outside during recess.

4. A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Brande & C to this entry?)

5. (archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.

   • every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality

   • 1649, Charles I of England, Eikon Basilike

     My recess hath given them confidence that I may be conquered.

6. (archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
   • 1713, Matthew Hale, The History of the Common Law of England

     In this recess of the jury, they are to consider their evidence

   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     Good verse recess and solitude requires.

7. (archaic) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
8. A secret or abstruse part.

   the difficulties and recesses of science

   • light what has been lodged in all the recesses and secret chambers of the soul

9. (botany, zoology) A sinus.

Synonyms

• (a break): break, day off, pause, vacation; hiatus, moratorium; see also Thesaurus:vacation or Thesaurus:pause

Derived terms

• recess appointment
• recession
• recessive

Translations

Verb

recess (third-person singular simple present recesses, present participle recessing, simple past and past participle recessed)

1. To inset into something, or to recede.

2. (intransitive) To take or declare a break.

3. (transitive, informal) To appoint, with a recess appointment.
   • 2013, Michael Grunwald, "Cliff Dweller", in Time, ISSN 0040-781X, volume 181, number 1, 2013 January 14, page 27:

     To the National Rifle Association's delight, the Senate has hobbled the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives by failing to confirm a director since 2006, but Obama hasn't made a recess appointment. […] "The President's view of his own power is a constrained one," says White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler. "Many of his nominees have languished, but he's only recessed the ones that were critical to keep agencies functioning."

4. To make a recess in.

Translations

Adjective

recess

1. (obsolete, rare) Remote, distant (in time or place).

Anagrams

• cesser, screes

Swedish

Noun

recess c

1. a decision, an agreement, a return (to previous conditions)
2. a recess, a niche

Declension

Synonyms

• återgång

References

• recess in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Etymology

From Old French concavité.

Morphologically concave +? -ity

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??kæv?ti/

Noun

concavity (countable and uncountable, plural concavities)

1. (uncountable) The state of being concave
2. (countable) A concave structure or surface

Antonyms

• convexity

Translations