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Definitions: Camber |
CamberNoun1. A slight convexity (as of the surface of a road). 2. 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. The alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the bottom than at the top. Verb1. Curve upward in the middle. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "camber" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Meteorology & Standards | The deviation from straightness orcurvature is the maximum deviation between a longitudinal edge and the straight line connecting the two ends of this edge the lateral departure of the edge of sheet or strip from a straight line. Source: European Union. (references) |
Building & Civil Engineering | The rise from the edges of a road to its crown, expressed as the vertical difference in level. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | The maximum distance between the theoretical axis of an insulator and the curved line being the locus of the centres of all the transverse cross-sections of the unloaded insulator. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The roundup or convexity of a ship's deck beams, the form of which is a segment of a circle or part of a parabola. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A distortion whereby the faces become concave or convex along the grain. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Camber Second son of King Brute, to whom Wales was left, whence its name of Cambria. (British fable.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Metallurgy | Curvature in the plane of rolled sheet or strip, or in the plane of the web of structural shapes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | The camber is the increase in thickness of the strip between the edge and the centre. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A beam, bar, or girder bent like a bow, with the hump towards the strata. (references) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | The slight upward vertical curve given to girders to compensate partially for deflection due to hook load and weight of the crane. Source: European Union. (references) |
Sports & Leisure | The curve in the ski that serves to distribute the body weight balance. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CamberSynonyms: bank (n), cant (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convexity | Convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion; camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am. swell. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Camber |
| English words defined with "camber": Camber arch, Camber beam, Cambered, Cambering ♦ Hogback. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "camber": air inlet flap ♦ blade-type grader ♦ CUSTOM SKI MAKER ♦ edge camber ♦ inlet guide flap ♦ land grader and leveller ♦ pipe processor ♦ road making machine which vibrates concrete ♦ SKELP PROCESSOR ♦ terracer ♦ wing flap. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Camber" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (camber). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Case of Lady Camber (1920) | |
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| "Camber" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "Camber" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 70% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (proper) | 30% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 40 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "camber": Camber arch ♦ Camber beam ♦ crown of a camber ♦ edge camber. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "camber": camber-induced, Camber-well. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
camber kit | 107 |
camber | 88 |
camber caster gauge | 36 |
camber negative | 18 |
camber and caster | 18 |
camber corporation | 17 |
camber gauge | 13 |
camber sands | 11 |
camber corp | 10 |
camber civic kit | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "camber"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | حدب (acclivity, hump, humping), الطريق (the way), إحديداب, إحدودب (humpback, hunch, stoop). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ставам сводест, кривина (curvature, incurvation), леко изпъкнала нагоре греда, правя сводест, изкорубеност, изпъквам по средата, изпъкналост (bulge, burr, convexity, jut, knap, knob, lobe, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, salience, swelling, umbo). (various references) | |
Chinese | 反 度. (various references) | |
Czech | zaoblení, vzepìtí, vyklenutí, vydutí, klenout se (arch, extend). (various references) | |
Danish | camber (bottom gather, obliquity of the wheels, positive camber, wheel camber), sabelfaçon, runding (bending, bilge, curl, curvature, fillet, rounding, roundness), pilhoejde (arch rise, arrow, height of an arch, height of arch, rise, versed sine), overhøjde (banking, cant, superelevation, superelevation rate), krumning i laengderetningen, konveks flade, isolators udbøjning, hvælvning, hjulstyrt (bottom gather, obliquity of the wheels, positive camber, wheel camber), fortykkelsen, dæksbugt (crop, crown of beam, round of beam), bjaelkebugt, bjælkebugt (crop, crown of beam, round of beam), afvigelse fra rethed (deviation from straightness, edge camber). (various references) | |
Dutch | camber (bottom gather, obliquity of the wheels, positive camber, wheel camber), zeeg (deck sheer, sheer), welving (convexity of roadway, crown, crown of roadway, curvature, curvature of roadway, dishing of roadway, plantar arch, swell), vlucht (bottom gather, flight, gaggle, obliquity of the wheels, positive camber, run, sortie, swarm, wheel camber), tonrondte (convexity of roadway, crown, crown of roadway, curvature of roadway, dishing of roadway), ronding (arch, convexity of roadway, crown, crown of roadway, curvature of roadway, dishing of roadway), rechtheid (deviation from straightness, edge camber), opbolling, kromming (arch, bandelette, brace, crook, curvature, curve, road curve, spring, springing, sweep), excentriciteit (concentricity error, eccentricity, mismatch), deksbocht (crop, crown of beam, round of beam), dekrondte (crop, crown of beam, round of beam), dekronding (crop, crown of beam, round of beam), balklaag (joisting), afwijking van de rechtheid (deviation from straightness, edge camber). (various references) | |
Farsi | منحنی کردن (Inflect), قوزیاخمیدگی اندک , تیریاالوارخمیده وکج , تحدب کم , خمیده کردن (Limber). (various references) | |
Finnish | taivuttaminen (raising), suoruuspoikkeama (deviation from straightness, edge camber), lapevääryys, kansimutka (crop, crown of beam, round of beam), kallistus, kaartaminen, holvaaminen, harjavuuden pyöristys, eristimen käyryys, ajoradan sivuvietto. (various references) | |
French | courbure, cambre, bombement. (various references) | |
German | radsturz (bottom gather, obliquity of the wheels, positive camber, wheel camber), wölbung (arch, bulge, convexity, cove, crown, curvature, curve, dome, oncavity, vaulting), wölben (bend, bending, curve, dish, thrust out, vault, vaulting), sturz (bottom gather, collapse, cropper, dash, downfall, drop, fall, falling over, lintel, lintol, obliquity of the wheels, overthrow, plunge, positive camber, precipitation, slump, spill, subversiveness, tumble, upset, wheel camber). (various references) | |
Greek | κύρτωμα (bilge, bump, crest, crook, curvature, hump, summit), καμπυλότητα (curvature, tortuousity, tortuousness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קמור (arched, arching, convex, vault, vaulted), קמרון קל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | íveltség. (various references) | |
Italian | curvatura (bend, bending, buckle, crook, crookedness, curvature, curve, curving, flexion, river bend, stoop, warp), arcuatura. (various references) | |
Korean | 개의 ". (various references) | |
Manx | lhurrym, druin (crown of road, hogback, hump), dromman, dreeym (arch, back, down, edge, fret, hillside, instep, ridge, saddle, shed, terrace), cur dromman er, cur dreeym er. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ambercay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | curvatura (bend, bending, bent, bow, buckle, crook, curvature, deviation from straightness, edge camber, flexure, hog, sunken panel, sweep, wind), arqueamento (bending, bowing, bulge, sag, waist). (various references) | |
Romanian | curburã (bend, bent, buckle, crack, crook, curvature, curve, flexion, flexure, sweep), curba (bend, curve, hunch, incurve, inflect), convexitate (convexity, knob), bombament, bomba. (various references) | |
Russian | строительный подъем, выгиб (bend, hogging, incurvation), выпуклость (bulge, bump, convex, convexity, crowning, gibbosity, knob, protuberance, proturberance, salience, saliency, swell, swelling), изогнутость. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nagib (bank, bevel, bias, cant, descent, escarp, grade, gradient, heel, inclination, incline, lean, list, offset, pitch, slant, slope, tilt, tip, weathering). (various references) | |
Spanish | comba (bulge, sag, skipping rope, warp). (various references) | |
Swedish | välvning (curvature). (various references) | |
Thai | ลักษ"ะที่โค้งเป็นหลังเต่าของถนน. (various references) | |
Turkish | kavis (arc, arch, bow, curve, loop, winding), kamber, hafifçe bükülmek, eğrilik (cast, crookedness, curvature, deviousness, obliqueness, skew, slant, tortuosity, unevenness, warp, wryness), dışbükey yapmak, bombelendirmek, bombe. (various references) | |
Ukranian | розвал передніх коліс, кривизна (anfractuosity, bending, bent, bulging, curvature, curve, flection, flexion, hogging), вигинатися (curve, elbow), вигинати (hollow), вигин (arc, bend, crook, curve, elbow, twist), випуклість (bulge, convexity, prominence, prominency), мілкий док, зігнутість, згибати в дугу. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự khum lên. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | cambre. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "camber": cambered, cambering, cambers. (additional references) | |
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"Camber" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baumber, cabert, cabor, Cambara, cambed, cambere, Camberra, cambes, Cambir, Cambou, camer, Canbord, casbar, Cenberht, ciber, cmbor, Comberg, Cymmer, dambor, kaber, Kaberu, Kauber, kiambere, pamber. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "camber" (pronounced ka"mber) |
| 4 | -a" m b er | amber, clamber. |
| 3 | -m b er | bedchamber, chamber, cucumber, Cumber, dismember, Ember, encumber, limber, lumber, member, misremember, nonmember, number, outnumber, remember, slumber, somber, timber, timbre. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: crambe. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-m-r" | |
-1 letter: acerb, amber, brace, bream, caber, cream, embar, macer. | |
-2 letters: acme, acre, bare, barm, beam, bear, bema, berm, brae, came, carb, care, crab, cram, mabe, mace, marc, mare, race, ream. | |
-3 letters: ace, arb, arc, are, arm, bam, bar, bra, cab, cam, car, ear, era, mac, mae, mar, ram, reb, rec, rem. | |
-4 letters: ab, ae, am, ar, ba, be, em, er, ma, me, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-m-r" | |
+1 letter: becharm, brecham, cambers, chamber, clamber, crambes, embrace, macaber, macabre. | |
+2 letters: becharms, beclamor, brechams, cambered, chambers, clambers, combater, crabmeat, cramboes, cymbaler, embraced, embracer, embraces, micawber, scramble, vambrace. | |
+3 letters: amberjack, bacterium, becharmed, beclamors, benchmark, bicameral, buckramed, cablegram, cambering, carbamate, carbamide, chambered, clambered, clamberer, combaters, crabmeats, crossbeam, cymbalers, embraceor, embracers, embracery, embracing, embracive, imbricate, micawbers, microbeam, scrambled, scrambler, scrambles, vambraces. | |
+4 letters: amberjacks, ambuscader, amerciable, bacteremia, bacteremic, barometric, becharming, beclamored, bedchamber, benchmarks, bichromate, breadcrumb, cablegrams, carbamates, carbamides, chambering, clamberers, clambering, comparable, crossbeams, descramble, embraceors, imbricated, imbricates, lumberjack, microbeams, scramblers, unscramble. | |
+5 letters: ambuscaders, antechamber, bachelordom, bacteremias, bathymetric, beachcomber, beclamoring, bedchambers, benchwarmer, bichromated, bichromates, bimolecular, biometrical, blackmailer, breadcrumbs, cabbageworm, candelabrum, chamberlain, chambermaid, comfortable, confirmable, conformable, descrambled, descrambler, descrambles, embarcadero, embraceable, embracement, embraceries, embracingly, embrocation, encumbrance, lumberjacks, meroblastic, mobocracies, problematic, reclaimable, recombinant, remembrance, resemblance, unscrambled, unscrambler, unscrambles. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6D 62 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- -- -... . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101101 01100010 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a m b e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006D 0062 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376779687184 |
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