Convex
['kɒnveks] or ['kɑnvɛks]
解釋/意思:
(a.) 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.
(n.) A convex body or surface.
阿斯特編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Gibbous, protuberant, rounding (outwardly).
布伦特校對
解釋/意思:
adj. rising into a round form on the outside the reverse of concave.—n. the vault of heaven &c.—adj. Convexed′ made convex.—adv. Convex′edly.—ns. Convex′ity Con′vexness roundness of form on the outside.—adv. Con′vexly.—adjs. Convex′o-con′cave convex on one side and concave on the other; Convex′o-con′vex convex on both sides.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The other is a pad made of aluminum which is concave on one side and convex on the other and may be used in a wet pack. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Suppose we place an arrow, _A_, in front of a convex lens (Fig. 73). 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Such lenses are called convex or converging lenses. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Convex glasses, by bending the rays and bringing them to a nearer focus, overbalance a short eyeball with its tendency to focus objects behind the retina. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Let a convex lens be placed near a candle (Fig. 75); move a paper screen back and forth behind the lens; for some position of the screen a clear, enlarged image of the candle will be made. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The defect is remedied by convex glasses. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Kepler studied Galileo’s instrument, and then designed one consisting of two convex lenses. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- It cannot depend on one, for that must be either convex, or concave, or plain. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- A camera (Fig. 82) is a light-tight box containing a movable convex lens at one end and a screen at the opposite end. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The distance of the principal focus from the lens is called the focal length of the lens, and from the diagrams we see that the more convex the lens, the shorter the focal length. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The last form neither augments nor diminishes visible objects; the concave diminishes them, the convex increases them, but both show them blurred and indistinct. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Lenses are very similar to prisms; indeed, two prisms placed as in Figure 69, and rounded off, would make a very good convex lens. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Farsightedness can be remedied by convex glasses, since they bend the light and bring it to a closer focus. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- It was developed from the convex lens, which, as we have seen in a previous chapter, had been known for centuries, if not from remote antiquity. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
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