What's the difference between camber and concavity?

Camber


Definition:

  • (n.) 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).
  • (n.) An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback.
  • (v. t.) To cut bend to an upward curve; to construct, as a deck, with an upward curve.
  • (v. i.) To curve upward.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The kinematic parameters of push time, push angle, and abduction showed differences between 3 and 6 degrees camber.
  • (2) If the same-sized valves of this two kinds are used, the hemodynamic parameter of cambered bileaflet valve would be better than those of yak pericardiac valve.
  • (3) 'Last time there was one of them here, down by Camber Sands?'
  • (4) There was also a significant difference (P less than 0.05) when +0.174 and -0.174 rad camber were compared to 0 rad camber during both the support and swing phases of flexion-extension.
  • (5) A triaxial elgon was used to measure the movement of each subject's right and left knees when running on a horizontal or laterally inclined treadmill at 2.4 m.s-1 during each experimental condition (on the horizontal surface and on cambers of +0.087, +0.174, -0.087, and -0.174 radians).
  • (6) Pyrolytic carbon cambered bileaflet valve developed by Chengdu University of Technology and Sciences was evaluated for its hemodynamics.
  • (7) My colleague Simon Cambers points out that she is only the sixth woman since 2000 to reach the semis at the first three grand slam events of the year.
  • (8) Today's skating technique does not require any waxing and only the cambered portion of the ski is waxed when performing the diagonal stride.
  • (9) My colleague, Simon Cambers, says he's played wearing sunglasses and it's really hard.
  • (10) "You have to be quite gentle, especially in Sochi because there is a bit of a camber so even though you think you can see what is going on you also have to feel through your body."
  • (11) My colleague Simon Cambers is poring over the numbers and thinks he would go 11th.
  • (12) Eight nonimpaired subjects participated in a wheelchair exercise test using a motor-driven treadmill in order to study the effect of rear wheel camber on wheelchair ambulation.
  • (13) The material is much thinner than before, and its camber can be varied during cruising for greater efficiency.
  • (14) Surface camber mean values for +0.087 and -0.087 rad were significantly different (P less than 0.05) during the swing phase for internal and external rotation.
  • (15) There was a significant difference (P less than 0.05) between +0.174 and -0.174 rad camber mean values for all six dependent variables (i.e., support and swing, flexion-extension, internal and external rotation, and valgus-varus range of motion).
  • (16) The surviving members of the Camber family, Cujo's owners, buy a new dog.
  • (17) In our view, however, in this case Jeremy Clarkson deliberately employed the offensive word to refer to the Asian person crossing the bridge as well as the camber of the bridge.” Ofcom noted that the sequence was scripted in advance and clear consideration had been given to the use of that particular term, to formulate what was intended as a humorous word play around it.
  • (18) Under anaesthesia, cardiopulmonary bypass and chemical cardioplegia, a cambered bileaflet valve (i.d.
  • (19) The purpose of this study was to determine the three-dimensional kinematics of the knee joint during running on level surfaces and surfaces of different degrees of camber.

Concavity


Definition:

  • (n.) A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the absence of glutamine the aggregate is readily dissociated following dilution of the extract; that is, velocity concaves upward as a function of increasing protein concentration.
  • (2) Under the SEM, the unstained area of rods is always showing a concavity, which is just a nucleoid in sections under the TEM.
  • (3) Three cases are presented in which a focal concave deformity occurred along the greater curvature of the stomach on upper gastrointestinal (GI) series.
  • (4) This change in shape varied from a slight flattening of the LV and IVS during diastole to total reversal of the normal direction of septal curvature such that the IVS became concave toward the RV and convex toward the LV.
  • (5) The technique combines the conventional plotting the contour lines and the highlighting, by means of hatching, of the concavities (or convexities) of the 'surface' representative of radioactive distribution.
  • (6) The trapezoidal shape of the vertebrae and scarring of the soft tissues within the concavity made correction difficult.
  • (7) On freeze-fracture preparations, the fragments with concave profile, corresponding to the external fracture face of plasma membrane, displayed an intramembrane particle density (ranging from 0 to 750 particles per micron2) which is similar to that recorded on the corresponding fracture face of intact cells from the common lymphoblastic leukemia antigen positive leukemic cell line (Nalm-1) or of vesicles shed in the culture medium by Nalm-1 cells.
  • (8) In testicular and cauda spermatozoa NBD-phallacidin fluorescent material was present in the two ventral processes that extended from the upper concave surface of the sperm head; also fainter material occurred along the concave border and as a dorsocaudal spur.
  • (9) When viewed in the lateral projection, the concavities superimpose, lying in the posterior portion of the vertebral body.
  • (10) Dose-effect relationships for most of the sampling times were linear and sometimes linear-quadratic concave upward or downward.
  • (11) This should be prevented by a bone-graft operation along the concave side of the tibia.
  • (12) Since February 1982, 23 patients with scoliosis were treated by releasing the soft tissues on the concave side and plaster spinal fusion jacket.
  • (13) The DRT curves of all data were concave and appeared to have two discrete slopes (z(D) values).
  • (14) Between the concave surfaces of two bent cadaverine molecules exists water channels all along the short b axis.
  • (15) Homotropic cooperative effects were observed as shown by the concave downward curvature of the reciprocal plots.
  • (16) The late mortality is 3.8% per patient-year--standard disc group 2.9% per patient-year and convexo-concave group 4.3% per patient year (no significant difference).
  • (17) The relationship between chloride transport and extracellular chloride in the presence of bromide is concave upward which suggests that this anion inhibits chloride movement.
  • (18) (3) A row of regularly spaced ribosomes located in the concavity, but at some distance from the arciform filament.
  • (19) The authors also consider a problem of how to interpret the symptom of a "snake mouth" or a "concave lens" which (depending on its cause) can be either transient (in a large concrement) or stable (in an exophytic tumor, completely occluding the duct).
  • (20) In both maxillary and mandibular teeth, approximal concavities often started in enamel, extending down to the root surface.

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