English word pseudoconcave comes from English concave, English pseudo- (False, not genuine, fake.)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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concave | English (eng) | (functional analysis, not comparable, of a real-valued function on the reals) satisfying the property that all segments connecting two points on the function's graph lie below the function.. (geometry, not comparable, of a polygon) not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees... Curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl. Hollow; empty (manufacturing) An [...] |
pseudo- | English (eng) | False, not genuine, fake. |
pseudoconcave | English (eng) | (mathematics) (said of a function) differentiable and decreasing in any direction where it has a negative directional derivative. |