camber
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Rough pavement or smooth; uphill or down; off camber or on; trail-braking into corners or powering out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
“You’re more likely to be blocked out by those trees on the left just because of the camber of the fairway. Then there’s no decision to be made there. You can’t go for the green.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2022
Back on 6, Kupcho sends a sensational second pin high to six feet, using the camber of the green to gather the ball right to left and towards the hole.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2021
Hunting gold, on a road with no camber, Down valleys, up mountains they’d clamber.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2018
Most important, both featured Pocock’s trademark camber, the slight curvature that gave them compression, spring, and liveliness in the water.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
It's all going to come down to good old Epsom and this great race," Herbert says, "and the course and the cambers and how the race pans out.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2012
On our trip we visited Madeira Island, disembarking at noon, the cambers keeling us into warm, shallow water, the weather perfect.
From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander
The best cambers for varying velocities, angles of incidence, and thicknesses of surface, are found by means of wind-tunnel research.
From The Aeroplane Speaks by Barber, H. (Horatio)
The best cambers for varying velocities, angles of incidence, and thickness of surface, are found by means of wind-tunnel research.
From The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition by Barber, H. (Horatio)
Who knows whether they want twin tips or a more cambered ski if they’ve never even ridden a chairlift?
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021
But taken by itself, the principle of action and reaction also fails to explain the lower pressure atop the wing, which exists in that region irrespective of whether the airfoil is cambered.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 4, 2020
The face is an L-shaped structure where the sole section wraps well into the toe and across the radius of the cambered sole.
From Golf Digest ● Dec. 7, 2019
Ms. Lopatkina, the chief attraction, is undoubtedly a beautiful dancer; gorgeous cambered feet, tapered legs, soulfully arched back and winged arms.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2016
As already explained, cambered surfaces are used, and these are longitudinally unstable at those angles of incidence producing a reasonable lift-drift ratio, i.e., at angles below: about 12 degrees.
From The Aeroplane Speaks by Barber, H. (Horatio)
The part of a dockyard where cambering is performed, and timber kept.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
