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Reverse curve

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(Railways) a curve like the letter S, formed of two curves bending in opposite directions.

See also: Reverse



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Van Cauter noted that sharply rising curves in the prevalence of obesity in the United States since the 1960s mirror reverse curves in the amount of sleep Americans get--the smallest amount in the industrialized world.
The parkway is a ribbon of reverse curves -- a ribbon that threads through and connects with the surrounding landscape.
At a bend in the Mississippi River, south of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and north of Cairo, Illinois, the river flows in a broad, sweeping, reverse curve.
 
 
 
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