camber
kam ber
- n a slight convexity (as of the surface of a road)
- n 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
- n the alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the bottom than at the top
- v curve upward in the middle
- His plane had new features: an expanding and contracting tail, like a blackbird's, for varying loads; variable camber in the wings, so that they could flatten out like a gull's .
- The motors are two to a side, streamlined into the high- camber cantilever wing.
- In addition to its slots, it has wing flaps, which vary the camber, or apparent thickness of the wing, and (the main feature) floating ailerons, which automatically assume a .