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/kˈæmbər/ Listen

noun

Camber n.

(Shipbuilding) 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).

(Arch.) An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback.

Camber arch (Arch.), an arch whose intrados, though apparently straight, has a slightly concave curve upward.

Camber beam (Arch.), a beam whose under side has a concave curve upward.

verb

Camber v. t. (past & past part. cambered; pres. part. cambering) To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve.

Camber v. i. To curve upward.

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Etymology of 'Camber'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Camber" Quotes from Famous Books

... way you talk one would think you were drawing L400 a year at Westminster, and working up a reputation as an Aeronautical Expert. I must have some depth and chord to take my Spars and Ribs, and again, I must have a certain chord to make it possible for my Camber (that's curvature) to be just right for the Angle of Incidence. If that's not right the air won't get a nice uniform compression and downward acceleration from my underside, and the rarefied 'suction' area over the top of me will not be as even and clean in effect as it might be. That ...

— The Aeroplane Speaks - Fifth Edition • H. Barber

... AND ANGLE.—The relative speed and angle, and the camber, or the curved formation of the plane, have been considered in all their aspects, so that the art in this respect has advanced with ...

— Aeroplanes • J. S. Zerbe***

... green spaces to boot, but Rye and its hillock are one; every inch is given over to red brick and grey stone. They are true cities of the plain. Between them are three miles of flat meadow, where, among thousands of sheep, stands the grey rotundity of Camber Castle. All this land is polder, as the Dutch call it, yet not reclaimed from the sea by any feat of engineering, as about the Helder, but presented by Neptune as a free and not too welcome gift to these ancient boroughs—possibly to equalise his theft ...

— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas