Definition of Superelevated

1. superelevate [v] - See also: superelevate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Superelevated

superduper
superdurable
supered
supereffective
superefficiency
superefficient
superego
superegoist
superegoists
superegos
superelastic
superelastically
superelasticities
superelasticity
superelevate
superelevated (current term)
superelevates
superelevating
superelevation
superelevations
superelite
superelites
superellipse
superellipses
superellipsoid
superellipsoids
superelliptical
superelongated
superelongation
superembedding

Literary usage of Superelevated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Concrete Work: A Book to Aid the Self-development of Workers in Concrete and by William Kendrick Hatt, Walter C. Voss (1921)
"Curves should be superelevated to accomplish two purposes — to make them safe against skidding and to induce traffic to keep to the right side of the road ..."

2. Concrete Work: A Book to Aid the Self-development of Workers in Concrete and by William Kendrick Hatt, Walter C. Voss (1921)
"Curves should be superelevated to accomplish two purposes — to make them safe against skidding and to induce traffic to keep to the right side of the road ..."

3. Bridge Engineering by John Alexander Low Waddell (1916)
"Where the track is superelevated, the tics have to be proportioned just as stated, but the question of the size of the tie will depend on the method adopted ..."

4. Handbook for Highway Engineers: Containing Information Ordinarily Used in by Wilson Gardner Harger, Edmund Arnold Bonney (1919)
"The ditch on the upper side of a superelevated through cut section can be omitted if the cut is short. Through cut and fill sections are used where required ..."

5. The Design of Railway Location: A Study of the Physical and Economic by Clement Clarence Williams (1917)
"The unbalanced superelevation amounts to 0.0006G(Ti2- F22)D where Ti is the speed for which the curve was superelevated, and Vz the speed of the freight ..."

6. American Rural Highways by Thomas Radford Agg (1920)
"... weight of the vehicle in pounds, d = the angle of superelevated surface cd, with the horizontal ca. R represents the radius of the curve upon which the ..."

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