| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | con·cave |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  k n-k v , knkv |
| ADJECTIVE: | Curved like the inner surface of a sphere. | | NOUN: | A concave surface, structure, or line. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: con·caved, con·cav·ing, con·caves
To make concave. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Latin concavus : com-, intensive pref.; see com– + cavus, hollow; see keu - in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | con·cavely —ADVERB
con·caveness —NOUN
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