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A slope in the turn of a road or track
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camber
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Word definitions for camber in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Ellie leaned back against the school piano, her gray skirt revealing the camber of her thighs. ▪ Snicking through St Mary's, a sharpish left-hander with an odd camber and change of surface.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, nautical term, from Old French cambre , chambre "bent," from Latin camurum (nominative camur ) "crooked, arched;" related to camera .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Camber \Cam"ber\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cambered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Cambering .] To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In aeronautics and aeronautical engineering , camber is the asymmetry between the top and the bottom surfaces of an aerofoil . An aerofoil that is not cambered is called a symmetrical aerofoil. The benefits of camber , in contrast to symmetrical aerofoils, ...
Usage examples of camber.
And today, as always, he raised defiant prayers to Camber of Culdi, whose lands these once had been, and who was and would remain a saint, so far as Queron Kinevan was concerned.
Fortunately, where Camber was concerned, God took that possibility out of their hands, by bodily assuming him into heaven.
They were the children of Saint Camber, and he had sworn to them, and he could not refuse anything they asked.
Dolban, and of Saint Camber himself, before draining the cup to its dregs.
Lady Elinor was previously married to one of the sons of the heretic Camber himself.
Queron recognized all the earmarks from his own experience with the Servants of Saint Camber and wondered whether Revan realized how powerful a charisma he possessed.
Both had later testified to their experience during the proceedings to canonize Camber, the king much against his will.
Anscom had agreed, and for many years remained the only one besides the immediate family to know that Alister Cullen was really Camber MacRorie.
Guaire of Arliss confided his most intimate experience of Camber to a zealous Gabrilite Healer-priest named Queron Kinevan.
Joram nor Camber dared defuse the allegations of sainthood with the truth without also giving away the impersonation.
She and Joram intended to try to reverse the spell that held Camber suspended in some twilight realm between life and death, and to have Queron attempt to Heal him before true death claimed him at last.
A wistful wondering whether something about Camber might not be supernatural after all.
Queron as well as Joram and Evaine, under circumstances that had nothing to do with the cult of Saint Camber now being so rigorously suppressed in the outside world.
Evaine asked, when they were safely back in the little study next door to the room where Camber lay.
They say he was a servant in the household of Rhys Thuryn and the daughter of Camber of Culdi.