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Proverse
Definitions
- 1 Describing the tendency of a plane to roll in the same direction as yaw.
"This is preferred over adverse yaw unless it becomes too proverse!"
- 2 Favourable; in line with one's interests or desires.
"Because of this, safety helmets have been the target of litigation to the extreme, with both adverse and proverse effect."
- 3 In the typical or canonical direction, order, or orientation.
"But this, like every other, has its proverse and reverse aspects."
- 4 Curved backward or downward.
"The sculpture consists of rather sharp proverse ribs in the inner whorls, starting at the umbilical seam and forming small and rounded nodes at the ventrolateral region and branching into two ventral ribs."
- 5 Narrower at the top.
"The divide between proverse and obverse markings is obvious, particularly in resting burrows which form the most common type in this group."
Etymology
From Latin prōversus (“turned forwards”), perfect passive participle of prōvertō (“to turn forwards”), from prō- (“before, in front of”) + vertō (“to turn”). By surface analysis, pro- + -verse. Doublet of prose.
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