выпуклый — meaning in English

English meaning

• convex adj Curving outward, like the outer surface of a ball or bowl.
• gibbous adj Curved outwards, like a bulge.

Senses

выпуклый is used for these senses in English:

• convex Curved or bowed outward like the outside of a bowl, circle, or sphere.
• gibbous (astronomy, of a celestial body) Having more than half (but not the whole) of its disc illuminated.

convex — full definition

1. adj Curving outward, like the outer surface of a ball or bowl.
2. adj (mathematics) Describing a function whose epigraph, the region lying above its graph, forms a convex set.
3. adj (geometry) Describing a shape whose internal angles are never more than 180 degrees.
4. adj (mathematics) Describing a set in which a straight line joining any two of its points stays entirely inside the set.

gibbous — full definition

1. adj Curved outwards, like a bulge.
2. adj (astronomy) Describes the moon or a planet when more than half but not all of its face is lit up.

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