Camber may refer to a variety of curvatures and angles:
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Camber angle
Camber angle is one of the angles made by the wheels of a vehicle; specifically, it is the angle between the vertical axis of a wheel and the vertical axis of the vehicle when viewed from the front or rear. It is used in the design of steering an ...
, the angle made by the wheels of a vehicle
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Camber beam
In building, a camber beam is a piece of timber
Lumber is wood that has been processed into dimensional lumber, including beams and planks or boards, a stage in the process of wood production. Lumber is mainly used for construction fra ...
, an upward curvature of a joist to compensate for load deflection due in buildings
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Camber thrust
Camber thrust and camber force are terms used to describe the force generated perpendicular to the direction of travel of a rolling tire due to its camber angle and finite contact patch. Camber thrust is generated when a point on the outer surface ...
in bike technology
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Camber (aerodynamics)
In aeronautics and aeronautical engineering, camber is the asymmetry between the two acting surfaces of an airfoil, with the top surface of a wing (or correspondingly the front surface of a propeller blade) commonly being more convex (positive c ...
, the asymmetry between the top and bottom curves of an aerofoil
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Camber (ship)
The camber is a measure of lateral main deck curvature in naval architecture. The curve is applied to a deck transversely, measured as the height of deck at centreline above the height of deck at side.
The practice of adding camber to a ship's de ...
, a measure of transversal deck curvature in naval architecture
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Cant (road/rail)
The cant of a railway track or camber of a road (also referred to as superelevation, cross slope or cross fall) is the rate of change in elevation (height) between the two rails or edges. This is normally greater where the railway or road is curve ...
, the convex curvature of a road surface in road construction
* The curvature of a
bow used to play certain string instruments, or the curvature of the fingerboard
Camber may also refer to:
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Camber (band)
Camber was an American emo/post-hardcore band from New York City, recognized for being one of the pioneer of the second-wave Eastern indie emo sound. They were often compared to likes of Texas Is the Reason, Sunny Day Real Estate and Mineral
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, an emo band from New York
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Camber (legendary king)
Camber, also Kamber, was the legendary first king of Cambria, according to the Geoffrey of Monmouth in the first part of his influential 12th-century pseudohistory ''Historia Regum Britanniae''. According to Geoffrey, Cambria, the classical name ...
, legendary king of Cambria, Wales
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Camber Corporation
Camber Corporation is a defense contractor headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama. It was acquired by Huntington Ingalls Industries on December 2, 2016 and is in the process of being reorganized as a division within that company. Once that reorg ...
, a defense contractor in Huntsville, Alabama
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Camber, East Sussex
Camber is a village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England, south-east of Rye. The village is located behind the sand dunes that occupy the estuary of the River Rother, where the seaside settlement of Camber Sands is s ...
, a seaside village including
Camber Sands
Camber Sands is a beach in East Sussex, UK, in the village of Camber, near Rye. It is the only sand dune system in East Sussex, and is east of the estuary of the River Rother at Rye Bay stretching to just beyond the Kent border, where shing ...
beach in England
* Camber, the former name of
Mihai Bravu, Tulcea
Mihai Bravu is a commune in Tulcea County, Northern Dobruja, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Mihai Bravu (formerly ''Camber''), Satu Nou and Turda (formerly ''Armutlia'').
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Communes in Tulcea County
Localities in No ...
, Romania
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Camber of Culdi
Camber may refer to a variety of curvatures and angles:
* Camber angle, the angle made by the wheels of a vehicle
* Camber beam, an upward curvature of a joist to compensate for load deflection due in buildings
* Camber thrust in bike technology
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, a prominent character in the fictional series of Deryni novels
* NATO reporting name for the
Ilyushin Il-86
The Ilyushin Il-86 (russian: Илью́шин Ил-86; NATO reporting name: Camber) is a short- to medium-range wide-body jet airliner that served as the USSR's first wide-bodied aircraft. Designed and tested by the Ilyushin design bureau in th ...
airliner
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Cambering (geology)
Cambering is a phenomenon typically seen at a valley crest or plateau margin whereby blocks of competent strata such as sandstone stretch, tilt or rotate with respect to underlying incompetent rock layers such as clay or mudstone. It results from ...
, the downslope movement of competent strata into a valley
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