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Concavo-convex   Listen
adjective
Concavo-convex  adj.  
1.
Concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or a crescent.
2.
(Optics) Specifically, having such a combination of concave and convex sides as makes the focal axis the shortest line between them.





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... represents a double-convex lens, Fig. 6 a double-concave, and Fig. 7 a concavo-convex or meniscus. By these it is seen that a double-convex lens tends to condense the rays of light to a focus, a double-concave to scatter them, and a concavo-convex combines ...
— American Handbook of the Daguerrotype • Samuel D. Humphrey
 
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