(a.) Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky.
(a.) Hollow; void of contents.
(n.) A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess.
(n.) A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll.
(v. t.) To make hollow or concave.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the absence of glutamine the aggregate is readily dissociated following dilution of the extract; that is, velocity concaves upward as a function of increasing protein concentration.
(2) Under the SEM, the unstained area of rods is always showing a concavity, which is just a nucleoid in sections under the TEM.
(3) Three cases are presented in which a focal concave deformity occurred along the greater curvature of the stomach on upper gastrointestinal (GI) series.
(4) This change in shape varied from a slight flattening of the LV and IVS during diastole to total reversal of the normal direction of septal curvature such that the IVS became concave toward the RV and convex toward the LV.
(5) The technique combines the conventional plotting the contour lines and the highlighting, by means of hatching, of the concavities (or convexities) of the 'surface' representative of radioactive distribution.
(6) The trapezoidal shape of the vertebrae and scarring of the soft tissues within the concavity made correction difficult.
(7) On freeze-fracture preparations, the fragments with concave profile, corresponding to the external fracture face of plasma membrane, displayed an intramembrane particle density (ranging from 0 to 750 particles per micron2) which is similar to that recorded on the corresponding fracture face of intact cells from the common lymphoblastic leukemia antigen positive leukemic cell line (Nalm-1) or of vesicles shed in the culture medium by Nalm-1 cells.
(8) In testicular and cauda spermatozoa NBD-phallacidin fluorescent material was present in the two ventral processes that extended from the upper concave surface of the sperm head; also fainter material occurred along the concave border and as a dorsocaudal spur.
(9) When viewed in the lateral projection, the concavities superimpose, lying in the posterior portion of the vertebral body.
(10) Dose-effect relationships for most of the sampling times were linear and sometimes linear-quadratic concave upward or downward.
(11) This should be prevented by a bone-graft operation along the concave side of the tibia.
(12) Since February 1982, 23 patients with scoliosis were treated by releasing the soft tissues on the concave side and plaster spinal fusion jacket.
(13) The DRT curves of all data were concave and appeared to have two discrete slopes (z(D) values).
(14) Between the concave surfaces of two bent cadaverine molecules exists water channels all along the short b axis.
(15) Homotropic cooperative effects were observed as shown by the concave downward curvature of the reciprocal plots.
(16) The late mortality is 3.8% per patient-year--standard disc group 2.9% per patient-year and convexo-concave group 4.3% per patient year (no significant difference).
(17) The relationship between chloride transport and extracellular chloride in the presence of bromide is concave upward which suggests that this anion inhibits chloride movement.
(18) (3) A row of regularly spaced ribosomes located in the concavity, but at some distance from the arciform filament.
(19) The authors also consider a problem of how to interpret the symptom of a "snake mouth" or a "concave lens" which (depending on its cause) can be either transient (in a large concrement) or stable (in an exophytic tumor, completely occluding the duct).
(20) In both maxillary and mandibular teeth, approximal concavities often started in enamel, extending down to the root surface.
Conclave
Definition:
(n.) The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.
(n.) The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals.
(n.) A private meeting; a close or secret assembly.
Example Sentences:
(1) A month later, the papal conclave chose as his successor 76-year-old Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, elevating the son of Italian immigrants to the highest office in the church.
(2) The second is that almost eight years after voting in the conclave that chose Benedict XVI, Cardinal Keith O'Brien seems too irredeemably tainted by scandal and allegations of hypocrisy to find himself electing any future popes.
(3) Only three of the nine previous conclaves since 1900 have ended sooner.
(4) He told her: This is my first time here [in the Vatican during a conclave] and I feel so happy and privileged to be here at this particular time so I can see the smoke with my naked eye instead of on television.
(5) Meanwhile,it is expected that the conclave of Cardinals due to select a new leader of the world's 1.2bn Catholics could start as soon as next week.
(6) #Conclave March 13, 2013 1.20pm GMT The final word on the composition of the holy smoke goes to the New York Times .
(7) Letters inviting cardinals to join the conclave will be sent out on Friday, but the first meetings to discuss a new pope are unlikely to take place before next Monday, with the conclave itself following a few days later.
(8) Michael Kelly (@MichaelKellyIC) It used to be a theology qualification was useful to cover the Vatican, now I'm wishing I did chemistry #Conclave March 13, 2013 12.19pm GMT The Vatican spokespeople seem to be getting a bit bogged down in descriptions of the smoke-making process.
(9) If pressed, they go into conclave and agree to forgive the foreigners; the lack of manners is doubtless the result of an Eton education.
(10) More than 2,500 of globalisation's movers and shakers gather for their annual four-day mountaintop conclave this week, aware that the world is still being shaken by the events of half a decade ago.
(11) Asked about speculation that he could himself emerge from the conclave as Benedict's successor, he said: "I've always answered, 'If it's the will of God.'"
(12) In 2003 Pope John Paul II made him only the third Scottish cardinal since the Reformation, and in 2005 O'Brien was part of the conclave that appointed Pope Benedict.
(13) The conclave In one of his last acts as pope, Benedict issued a decree on Monday to allow the cardinals to bring forward the start of the conclave – which takes its name from the Latin phrase cum clave ("with key") and refers to the fact the cardinals used to be locked in until they made their choice – meaning the gathering could begin as soon as next week.
(14) He added that interpretations of the report were creating "a tension that is the opposite of what the pope and the church want" in the approach to the conclave of cardinals that will elect Benedict's successor.
(15) 7.54pm GMT New York magazine's Kevin Roose breaks down the Roman Catholic Church's financial empire: The new pope, who is being elected at a conclave that began today, will not only take control of one of the world's major religions; he will also oversee a massive religious business whose holdings are worth billions of dollars, but whose finances on a yearly basis are often rocky.[...]
(16) Despite papal fiction being such a crowded church, Harris, in Conclave , contrives a twist involving the number of cardinal-electors that seems to me completely new, showing that the genre still has possibilities.
(17) During 1958's conclave BarÇa beat Real Madrid 4-0 , and in 1978 they put four past Las Palmas.
(18) Now we’re down to 250,000, living in a state of siege.” Conclave , Harris’s 11th novel, wasn’t an easy book to write, but it was a fairly fast one.
(19) On 22 February, the cardinal gave an interview to the BBC about going to the conclave.
(20) The playlist is intended to give the listener a disposition of wonder, of contemplation, of prayer to the God who first loved us.” So, starting with some Palestrina and taking in some Holst, Vaughan Williams and John Rutter, here is the official Songs for the Conclave playlist .