camber
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
camber (uncountable)
- A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 1
- From end to end, just behind the houses, ran the broad gravel walk, with its emphatic camber and its metal-edged gutters where a child's ball would come to rest and the first few plane leaves, dusty but still green, were already falling, since the summer had been so hot and rainless all through.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 1
- The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force.
- (architecture) An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch.
- (automotive) The alignment on the roll axis of the wheels of a road vehicle, where positive camber signifies that the wheels are closer together at the bottom than the top.
- The curvature of an airfoil.
- (nautical) A small enclosed dock in which timber for masts (etc.) is kept to weather.
- Russian: вы́пуклость
- Spanish: combadura
- Spanish: peralte
- German: Radsturz, Sturz
- Spanish: inclinación
- Italian: bolzone
camber (cambers, present participle cambering; past and past participle cambered)
- To curve upwards in the middle.
- To adjust the camber of the wheels of a vehicle.
- Because he cambered the tires too much, he had less control on the turns.
- Spanish: combar
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