reverse curve

American  

noun

1. an S -shaped curve, as on highways and railroad tracks, produced by the joining of two curves that turn in opposite directions.

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reverse curve

In the winding roads of the park we learned to turn corners on two wheels and rest the other pair for the reverse curve.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various

At 100 feet a reverse curve brought the cavern on a course parallel to that which it had held up to 60 feet.

From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Fowke, Gerard

And rip, whrrr! as they slammed around a double reverse curve with a vicious swing that made the bolts rattle in the last car.

From Careers of Danger and Daring by Moffett, Cleveland

Now, last year I was coming through Rye one morning, and as I struck the bridge after that reverse curve I saw two young fellows running along the No. 3 track away from me.

From Careers of Danger and Daring by Moffett, Cleveland

Air Force chevrons have no point, but are a compound reverse curve with the deepest part of the curve worn down; over this is imposed a star within a circle.

From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense