Main Entry:

con·vex

Pronunciation:

\kän-ˈveks; ˈkän-ˌ, kən-ˈ\

Function:

adjective

Etymology:

Middle French or Latin; Middle French convexe, from Latin convexus vaulted, concave, convex, from com- + -vexus; perhaps akin to Latin vehere to carry — more at way

Date:

1571

1 a: curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle b: being a continuous function or part of a continuous function with the property that a line joining any two points on its graph lies on or above the graph2 aof a set of points : containing all points in a line joining any two constituent points bof a geometric figure : comprising a convex set when combined with its interior <a convex polygon>