proverse

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Describing the tendency of a plane to roll in the same direction as yaw.

   • This is preferred over adverse yaw unless it becomes too proverse!
2. 2

   Favourable

   Favourable; in line with one's interests or desires.

   • Because of this, safety helmets have been the target of litigation to the extreme, with both adverse and proverse effect.
   • When a process of proverse selection has run its course, a disproportionate number of high-risk insureds will remain in the former classification, which will prompt an increase in the premiums charged in order to cover the higher losses.
3. 3

   In the typical or canonical direction, order, or orientation.

   • But this, like every other, has its proverse and reverse aspects.
   • This paper explores the new field of active control of proverse (conventional) and converse buckling in piezoelectrically actuated beams using Post-Buckled Precompressed (PBP) elements.
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   1. 4

      Curved backward or downward.

      • The sculpture consists of rather sharp proverse ribs in the inner whorls, starting at the umbilical seam and forming small and rounded nodes at the ventrolateral region and branching into two ventral ribs.
      • Ribs are rursiradiate at early growth stages, then become radial to slightly proverse; they terminate at ventral margin with flat, sharp clavi, gently sloping into sides[…]
      • The ribs outline is similar, also if the occurrence of proverse ribs seems more frequent.
   2. 5

      Narrower at the top.

      • The divide between proverse and obverse markings is obvious, particularly in resting burrows which form the most common type in this group.
      • Proverse scratches are due to a headdown attitude of the body, whereby only the diggings of the anterior legs are preserved in the undertrace (Pl. 13).

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