Is “Concave” a Scrabble word?

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Yes
CONCAVE
Valid in at least one Scrabble dictionary

Valid in these dictionaries

SOWPODS / CSW
Scrabble UK & International
Valid
TWL / NWL
Scrabble North America
Valid
Large English Dictionary
General English word list
Valid

Meaning of Concave

/ˈkɒŋkeɪv/

noun
  1. 1.A concave surface or curve.

  2. 2.The vault of the sky.

  3. 3.One of the celestial spheres of the Ptolemaic or geocentric model of the world.

    Aristotle makes [Fire] to move to the concave of the Moon. - Thomas Salusbury (1661).

verb
  1. 1.To render concave, or increase the degree of concavity.

adjective
  1. 1.Curved like the inner surface of a sphere or bowl

  2. 2.(of a polygon) not convex; having at least one internal angle greater than 180 degrees.

  3. 3.(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.