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 Definitions of camber  [ˈkæm bər]  

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Definition of 'camber' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (v.i.) camber
to arch slightly; curve upward in the middle.

2. (n.) camber
a slight arching, upward curve, or convexity, as of the deck of a ship.

3.  camber
a slightly arching piece of timber.

4.  camber
the rise of the curve of an airfoil, usu. expressed as the ratio of the rise to the length of the chord of the airfoil.

5.  camber
the tilt of an automotive wheel, measured as the angle between the vertical and a plane through the wheel's circumference.

Etymology:  (1610–20; < dial. MF cambre bent < L camur hooked, curved)

Definition of 'camber' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) camber
a slight convexity (as of the surface of a road)

2. (noun) bank, cant, camber
a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force

3. (verb) camber
the alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the bottom than at the top

4. (verb) camber
curve upward in the middle


Definition of 'camber' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) camber
an upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck)

2. (noun) camber
an upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback

3. (verb) camber
to cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve

4. (verb) camber
to curve upward



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