Convex
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Convex, meaning "curving out" or "extending outward" (compare concave), may refer to:
- Convex Computer, a company that produced a number of vector supercomputers
- Convex function, in mathematics
- Convex lens, in optics
- Convex polygon, a polygon in which no line segment between two points on the boundary ever goes outside the polygon
- Convex polytope (including convex polyhedrons)
- Convex preferences, an individual's ordering of various outcomes
- Convex set, in mathematics
- Convexity (finance), second derivatives in financial modeling generally
- Convexity in economics
- Bond convexity, a measure of the sensitivity of the duration of a bond to changes in interest rates
See also
- List of convexity topics
- Non-convexity (economics), violations of the convexity assumptions of elementary economics
- Concave (disambiguation)
- Obtuse angle