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Three example sentences with biconcave, each labelled with its topic.
A healthy red blood cell is biconcave, dented in the middle like a doughnut that never quite opened.
Medicine
A biconcave element spreads the light outward, which is why it sits at the front of a wide lens.
Photography
Grind the glass thinner in the middle than at the rim and you have a biconcave disc that scatters a beam.
Science
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