Sentence examples for the camber from inspiring English sources

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the camber

noun

A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, a beam, roof deck, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.

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The camber helps on groomers and high speed".

A wooden template ensures you're getting the camber right.

(These devices also alter the camber of the wing, increasing both lift and drag).

The surviving members of the Camber family, Cujo's owners, buy a new dog.

For over an hour, the action highlight is a slight adjustment in the camber of a see-saw.

Ben Ainslie's new British racing HQ opens this month, a sail-like building at the Camber in Old Portsmouth.

And though his comeback mount, Beatrice Aurore, was so awkward on the camber that he could barely ride her out, Dettori pronounced himself seamlessly at home.

The road arcs inland through increasingly mountainous terrain, trees crowding the camber, the ghost of a defunct railway line lying to one side.

The city of Portsmouth also dipped into its pocket, providing £1.2m to help the process by relocating existing businesses on the Camber.

As the horses enter the straight, the camber (the course slopes away from the Grandstand to the far rail) accentuates any tiring and any tendency to hang to the left.

In the Wright Flyer's case, an arrangement of cables and pulleys twisted the trailing edges of the wings in opposite directions, thereby increasing the camber (and thus the lift) of one wing relative to the other.

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