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Concaved vs Concave - What's the difference?

concaved | concave |

As verbs the difference between concaved and concave

is that concaved is past tense of concave while concave is to render concave, or increase the degree of concavity.

As an adjective concave is

curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl.

As a noun concave is

a concave surface or curve.

concaved

English

Verb

(head)
  • (concave)

  • concave

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl
  • (geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees..
  • (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.
  • hollow; empty
  • * Shakespeare
  • as concave as a worm-eaten nut

    Antonyms

    * convex

    Derived terms

    * concavely * concaveness * concavity

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A surface or curve.
  • The vault of the sky.
  • 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).
  • (industry) An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
  • (surfing) An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
  • (skateboarding) An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength.
  • Verb

    (concav)
  • To render , or increase the degree of concavity.
  • Derived terms

    * concaver ----

    concave

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl
  • (geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees..
  • (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.
  • hollow; empty
  • * Shakespeare
  • as concave as a worm-eaten nut

    Antonyms

    * convex

    Derived terms

    * concavely * concaveness * concavity

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A surface or curve.
  • The vault of the sky.
  • 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).
  • (industry) An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
  • (surfing) An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
  • (skateboarding) An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength.
  • Verb

    (concav)
  • To render , or increase the degree of concavity.
  • Derived terms

    * concaver ----