Meaning of proverse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Describing the tendency of a plane to roll in the same direction as yaw.
2. Favourable; in line with one's interests or desires.
3. In the typical or canonical direction, order, or orientation.
4. Curved backward or downward.
5. Narrower at the top.

Examples

“This is preferred over adverse yaw unless it becomes too proverse!”

“Because of this, safety helmets have⟳ been the target⟳ of litigation to the extreme, with both adverse and proverse effect.”

“When a process⟳ of proverse selection has run⟳ its course, a disproportionate number⟳ of high-risk insureds will remain⟳ in the former classification, which will prompt an increase⟳ in the premiums charged in order⟳ to cover⟳ the higher losses.”

“Proverse selection is the opposite of the more familiar "adverse selection" problem in which individuals who know⟳ or suspect⟳ that they will need⟳ insurance are more likely to apply⟳ for it.[…]Proverse selection[…]operates as an incentive to reveal⟳ positive information about one's risk⟳ profile, even if not required (or, sometimes, even if prohibited).”

“A risk⟳ proverse or risk⟳ loving person would be more willing to take⟳ the risk⟳ if there is a chance of yielding higher value design⟳ alternatives.”

“But this, like⟳ every other, has its proverse and reverse aspects.”

“Horace twists the Homeric strands used by Vergil by a further twist⟳ when he in turn⟳ plays the Vergilian game and points to a proverse and converse relationship between Agrippa and Meriones in the same way as Vergil had created proverse and converse relationships between Diomedes and Aeneas/Augustus.”

“This paper explores the new field of active control⟳ of proverse (conventional) and converse buckling in piezoelectrically actuated beams using Post-Buckled Precompressed (PBP) elements.”

“The subject-matter of this paper is the structural mechanism of the proverse and reverse word-compounding as a word-building process⟳ in modern English while having the model⟳ of word-combination as a starting basis for such transformations.”

“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.”

“Ribs are rursiradiate at early growth stages, then become⟳ radial to slightly proverse; they terminate at ventral margin with flat, sharp clavi, gently sloping into sides[…]”

“The ribs outline is similar, also if the occurrence of proverse ribs seems more frequent.”

“The divide⟳ between proverse and obverse markings is obvious, particularly in resting burrows which form⟳ the most common type⟳ in this group.”

“Proverse scratches are due to a headdown attitude of the body, whereby only the diggings of the anterior legs are preserved in the undertrace (Pl. 13).”

“The proverse direction of leg marks in the anterior and long, deep endopodal scratches make⟳ Form⟳ A strikingly similar to the Upper Cambrian or possibly lowermost Ordovician (Seilacher 2007) Australian Rusophycus latus Webby, a rusophyciform version of the Upper Cambrian Omani Cruziana omanica (Seilacher).”

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