English Dictionary

camber

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkæm.bə/

名詞

不可算名詞

A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.

日本語の意味

路面、梁、屋根、船の甲板などの表面が、液体が横から流れ落ちるような効果をもたらすために、わずかに外側に隆起している状態。または、そのようなわずかな凸状の曲面や湾曲。

The road engineer adjusted the camber of the new highway so rainwater would run toward the gutters.

道路技師は、新しい高速道路のわずかな凸状の傾斜を調整して、雨水が側溝に流れるようにした。

意味（1）

A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.

From end to end, just behind the houses, ran the broad gravel walk, with its emphatic camber and its metal-edged gutters where a child's ball would come to rest and the first few plane leaves, dusty but still green, were already falling, since the summer had been so hot and rainless all through.

意味（2）

The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force.

Again we were stricken of our palsy, slowed down, re-accelerated, and there, at last, were the few huts of a hamlet, with the lorry, lying at an angle in the road's camber, outside a tea-shop.

意味（3）

(architecture) An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch.

意味（4）

(automotive) The alignment on the roll axis of the wheels of a road vehicle, where positive camber signifies that the wheels are closer together at the bottom than the top.

意味（5）

(aviation) The curvature of an airfoil.

意味（6）

(nautical) A small enclosed dock in which timber for masts (etc.) is kept to weather.