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Biconcave

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Concave on both sides or surfaces: a biconcave lens.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Having both sides concave.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Concave on both sides.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Hollow or concave on both sides; doubly concave, as a lens. See lens.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. concave on both sides

Word Usage

"Real red blood cells owe their astonishing agility to their "biconcave" or tyre-like shape, and to get the same kind of synthetic particles, Samir Mitragotri and his team got their inspiration from the way real red blood cells acquire their final shape in the body."

Equivalent

concave

Antonym

biconvex

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

concave concavo-concave

Same Context

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