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Camber
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- 1 A coastal village and civil parish in Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ9618).
- 1 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. uncountable
"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."
- 2 the alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the bottom than at the top wordnet
- 3 The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force. uncountable
"Again we were stricken of our palsy, slowed down, re-accelerated, and there, at last, were the few huts of a hamlet, with the lorry, lying at an angle in the road's camber, outside a tea-shop."
- 4 a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force wordnet
- 5 An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. uncountable
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- 6 a slight convexity (as of the surface of a road) wordnet
- 7 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. uncountable
- 8 The curvature of an airfoil. uncountable
- 9 A small enclosed dock in which timber for masts (etc.) is kept to weather. uncountable
- 1 To curve upwards in the middle.
- 2 curve upward in the middle wordnet
- 3 To adjust the camber of the wheels of a vehicle.
"Because he cambered the tires too much, he had less control on the turns."
Etymology
From Old French cambre (“bent”), from Latin camurum, from camur (“arched”).
From Old French cambre (“bent”), from Latin camurum, from camur (“arched”).
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