reverse curve

Upon reaching a sharp reverse curve by bridge 25, the wagon left the track, coming to rest at the foot of the bank.

The wood is stained dark, and the front legs are carved in reverse curves, with claws on the bottom.

This reverse curve shape made it easier to thread the intended thick material end over the bar.

The reverse curve offers considerable resistance to the locomotive.

The W33x169 girders are cold bent with reverse curves to multiple radii.

Her hull is curved back from the long bowsprit in a reverse curve to the waterline.

It was a circle of spring steel with a slight gap where the ends were bent in tiny reverse curves.

An example is the elimination of three consecutive reverse curves in favor of one larger curve.

Further inboard, this "deck" arced to the vertical again by a reverse curve.

It was heavy, the blade nine inches long, the edge sweeping to meet the reverse curve from the back, the point needle-sharp at the union.

There, OH 617 follows a gradual reverse curve that takes it southeasterly, then back to the east.

It was something on the order of a sailor's dirk, though single-edged, with a peculiar reverse curve at the tip.

It also maintains the same trajectory as in Live Oak, although at some point there's a slight reverse curve to the left.

The road makes another brief northwest reverse curve and then turns straight north and south again between 178th and 172nd Streets.

The screwball is essentially a reverse curve ball, as it breaks in the opposite direction of the pitchers arm travel.

A reverse curve of the frame indicated that the whole buckle was intended to be used for securing a thick material, such as leather.

The first curve went well, but when she hit the reverse curve, Orb got confused and started to lean the wrong way.

The dome reverses curves to rise in the center to a ball finial, a discreetly Indian feature.

The romantic 'line of beauty' has been associated with curvature of a woman's back and is an asymmetric reverse curve.

Also, on sharp reverse curves, the buffers can get buffer-locked by slipping over - and onto the back of - an adjacent buffer.

The grade through here tends to stair-step between short steep 3% grades and longer gradual 2-2.5% while winding through many reverse curves.

In banking, the term "reverse curve" refers to a situation in which short-term lending rates are higher than long-term rates.

An S bridge is a bridge whose alignment follows a reverse curve, like the letter "S" in plan.

The other is a left-handed reverse curve bow I bought from an obliging reader in Kiss-Mee.

Executed a double-right-angle reverse curve, thus missing by hair's breadths two vehicles traveling in the opposite direction and one in his own.