proverse

Meaning

Adjective

  • Describing the tendency of a plane to roll in the same direction as yaw.
  • Suggesting the tendency to preempt by foreseeing consequences.
  • Favourable; in line with one's interests or desires.
  • In the typical or canonical direction, order, or orientation.
  • Curved backward or downward.
  • Narrower at the top.

Origin

  • From Latin prōversus ("turned forwards"), perfect passive participle of prōvertō, from prō- + vertō. Surface analysis pro- + -verse. prose.

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