proverse
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3ADJ.
adverse
VERB + PROVERSE
becomes, process
PROVERSE + NOUN
selection
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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!
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.
In the typical or canonical direction, order, or orientation.
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.
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[…]
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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3This is preferred over adverse yaw unless it becomes too proverse!
WiktionaryBecause of this, safety helmets have been the target of litigation to the extreme, with both adverse and proverse effect.
WiktionaryWhen 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
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