Word Meanings - BICONVEX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens.

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• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• CONVEXED
  Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form. Sir T. Browne.
• CONVEXEDNESS
  Convexity.
• CONVEX
  Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave. Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a
• CONVEXO-PLANE
  Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.
• CONVEXNESS
  The state of being convex; convexity.
• BICONVEX
  Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens.
• CONVEXLY
  In a convex form; as, a body convexly shaped.
• CONVEXO-CONCAVE
  Convex on one side, and concave on the other. The curves of the convex and concave sides may be alike or may be different. See Meniscus.
• SIDESMAN
  1. A party man; a partisan. Milton. 2. An assistant to the churchwarden; a questman.
• CONVEXO-CONVEX
  Convex on botConvex, a.
• CONVEXEDLY
  In a convex form; convexly. Sir T. Browne.
• CONVEXITY
  The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness. A smooth, uniform convexity and rotundity of a globe. Bentley.
• IRONSIDES
  A cuirassier or cuirassiers; also, hardy veteran soldiers; -- applied specifically to Cromwell's cavalry.
• BESIDES
  Over and above; separate or distinct from; in addition to; other than; else than. See Beside, prep., 3, and Syn. under Beside. Besides your cheer, you shall have sport. Shak.
• PLANO-CONVEX
  Plane or flat on one side, and convex on the other; as, a plano-convex lens. See Convex, and Lens.
• CONCAVO-CONVEX
  Specifically, having such a combination of concave and convex sides as makes the focal axis the shortest line between them. See Illust. under Lens. (more info) 1. Concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or a crescent.
• SLICKENSIDES
  1. The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another. 2. A variety of galena found in Derbyshire, England.
• APSIDES
  See APSIS
• SILVERSIDES
  Any one of several species of small fishes of the family Atherinidæ, having a silvery stripe along each side of the body. The common species of the American coast is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker.
• SLIKENSIDES
  See SLICKENSIDES