Curved or bowed outward like the outside of a bowl, circle, or sphere. / (functional analysis, not comparable, of a real-valued function on the reals) having an epigraph that is a convex set.

Any convex body or surface. / (gambling) A playing card made convex for use in cheating. / (gambling) A small convex mirror used to cheat by observing other players' cards.

plural of convex

Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form.

The state or quality of being convex.

The state of being convex. / A convex line or surface. / (finance) A measure of the curvature in the relationship between the prices and yields of bonds.

plural of convexity

Misspelling of convexity.

(mathematics) The smallest convex set of points in which a given set of points is contained.

(optics) A lens having at least one convex surface, such that light passing through it may be brought to a focus.