Usually means: Curved inward, like a cave.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word concave:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. concave: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. concave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. concave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. concave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. concave: Vocabulary.com
  6. Concave, concave: Wordnik
  7. concave: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. concave: Wiktionary
  9. concave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. concave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. concave: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. concave: Dictionary.com
  13. concave: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. concave: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Concave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Concave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. concave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. concave: Rhymezone
  19. concave, concave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. concave: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. concave: Free Dictionary
  22. concave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. concave: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. concave: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Concave: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. concave: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  4. concave: Medical dictionary

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Concave: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Concave: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  5. Concave: Extragalactic Astronomy
  6. concave, concave: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  7. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. concave: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Concave: Sports Definitions

(Note: See concaved as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl.
adjective:  (geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) Not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees.
adjective:  (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.
adjective:  Hollow; empty.
noun:  A concave surface or curve.
noun:  The vault of the sky.
noun:  One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world.
noun:  (manufacturing) An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting.
noun:  (surfing) An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift.
noun:  (skateboarding) An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength.
noun:  (gambling) A playing card made concave for use in cheating.
verb:  To render concave, or increase the degree of concavity.

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