concave vs pierce

concave

verb
  • To render concave, or increase the degree of concavity. 

noun
  • A playing card made concave for use in cheating. 

  • One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world. 

  • An indentation running along the base of a surfboard, intended to increase lift. 

  • An element of a curved grid used to separate desirable material from tailings or chaff in mining and harvesting. 

  • The vault of the sky. 

  • An indented area on the top of a skateboard, providing a position for foot placement and increasing board strength. 

  • A concave surface or curve. 

adj
  • Hollow; empty. 

  • Satisfying the property that all segments connecting two points on the function's graph lie below the function. 

  • Not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees. 

  • Curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl. 

pierce

verb
  • To penetrate; to affect deeply. 

  • To get to the heart or crux of (a matter). 

  • To create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry. 

  • to break or interrupt abruptly 

  • To puncture; to break through. 

noun
  • A pierced earring. 

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