Proverse

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (aviation) Describing the tendency of a plane to roll in the same direction as yaw.
2. Favourable; in line with one's interests or desires.
3. In the typical or canonical direction, order, or orientation.
4. Curved backward or downward.
5. (paleontology) Narrower at the top.

Example Sentences

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

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.

Proverse selection is the opposite of the more familiar "adverse selection" problem in which individuals who know or suspect that they will need insurance are more likely to apply for it.[…]Proverse selection[…]operates as an incentive to reveal positive information about one's risk profile, even if not required (or, sometimes, even if prohibited).

A risk proverse or risk loving person would be more willing to take the risk if there is a chance of yielding higher value design alternatives.

But this, like every other, has its proverse and reverse aspects.

Horace twists the Homeric strands used by Vergil by a further twist when he in turn plays the Vergilian game and points to a proverse and converse relationship between Agrippa and Meriones in the same way as Vergil had created proverse and converse relationships between Diomedes and Aeneas/Augustus.

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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• more proverse
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