concave
Intuitively speaking, curved away from the eye. A concave figure is a set of points some of whose chords include points that are in the set.

When at least one of the interior angles of a polygon is greater than 180°, it is a concave polygon. The inside surface of a bowl is concave when viewed from above.


Related Terms: chord, convex, interior angle, polygon


 
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