pseudoconcave etymology

English word pseudoconcave comes from English concave, English pseudo- (False, not genuine, fake.)

Detailed word origin of pseudoconcave

Dictionary entryLanguageDefinition
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.

Words with the same origin as pseudoconcave

Descendants of concave
concavation pseudoconcavity
Descendants of pseudo-
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