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How to pronounce “concave”
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Pronunciation guide for concave
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of concave with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Antifragille: Things That Gain from Disorder
AUDIENCE: Concave.
- Definition summary
- Curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce concave
Antifragille: Things That Gain from Disorder

AUDIENCE: Concave.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “concave”
Meaning
- [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.
- [Noun]
- A concave surface or curve.
- The vault of the sky.
- One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world.
- (manufacturing) 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.
- (gambling) A playing card made concave for use in cheating.
- [Verb]
- To render concave, or increase the degree of concavity.
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