Meaning of Camber | Babel Free

Definitions

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
2. A coastal village and civil parish in Rother district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ9618).
3. The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force.
   uncountable
4. An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch.
   uncountable
5. 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
6. The curvature of an airfoil.
   uncountable
7. A small enclosed dock in which timber for masts (etc.) is kept to weather.
   uncountable

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Examples

“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.”

“The track was stony with a grassy camber up the middle.”

“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.”

“Even a small camber one way caused the whole outfit to list alarmingly.”

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