What is "outcurve"

Usage examples of "outcurve".

As he stood there, turned from me, with his hat off, and his neck painfully flushed under the sharp outcurve of his dark head, a feeling of pity surged up in me, as if I had taken an unfair advantage.

By the 1990s, it had been retired and in its place was a relatively compact telemetry processing system codenamed Outcurve, consisting of four racks of equipment and a sixteen-megabyte memory.

During the inundations of the Mississippi the river may at times be seen to eat away acres of land in a single day along one of the outcurves of its banks.

Long-shafted, with edged and pointed blades, the shaft protected by outcurved crescents of steel, they had been designed to penetrate a tough hide and to block the rush of a stabbed beast.

Roberts joined the crowd pressing forward at the outcurved head of the slide.

It was definitely charming, with its little decks and odd outcurving windows and its mitre-saw filigree decorations along the roofline.

I had the inner wall to deal with, three meters high and topped with broken glass, more wires and outcurving spikes.

She paused for a second under its outcurving walls and looked across the courtyard.

Now the sea lay on either hand, and they walked on a long, falling ridge-back that ran down at last through dry reeds and winding creek-beds to an outcurving beach of sand, colored like ivory.

His broad helmet bore long outcurving horns, and combined with the lowered face guard, which held the aspect of a demon.