Convex - Encyclopedia




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CONVEX (Lat. convexus, carried round, rounded, from con-, with, and vehere, to carry), a term for the exterior side of a curved or rounded surface, as opposed to "concave" (Lat. con-, and cavus, hollow), the inner surface.


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