Camber may refer to:

• Camber, East Sussex, a seaside resort in England, near to Camber Sands.

Camber also has slightly different meanings in different technical fields: Camber is a seaside village in the English county of East Sussex, near to Rye, grid reference TQ965185. ... The seafront of Torquay, a seaside resort in Devon, England. ... Camber Sands is an important seaside resort in Camber (Near Rye), East Sussex. ...

• See camber angle for the use of the term in automobile technology

• In aeronautical engineering camber is the asymmetry between the top and the bottom curves of an aerofoil. Cambered aerofoils generate lift at positive, zero, or even small negative angle of attack, whereas a symmetric aerofoil only has lift at positive angles of attack.

• In road construction camber is a measure of the convex curvature of a road.

• In architecture and building construction camber is an upward curvature of the a joist or joist girder intended to compensate for deflection due to loading conditions.

• In cross country skiing, camber refers to the amount of curve in the base of a ski (cross country skis are generally not flat).

• In music, camber refers to the curvature of a bow used to play certain string instruments.

Camber is also the name of a prominent character in the fictional series of Deryni novels. A wheel with a negative camber angle Camber angle is the angle made by the wheel of an automobile; specifically, it is the angle between the vertical axis of the wheel and the vertical axis of the vehicle when viewed from the front or rear. ... An airfoil (or aerofoil in British English) is a specially shaped cross-section of a wing or blade, used to provide lift or downforce, depending on its application. ... In this diagram, the black arrow represents the direction of the wind. ... // Scope and intentions According to the very earliest surviving work on the subject, Vitruvius De Architectura, good buildings should have Beauty (Venustas), Firmness (Firmitas) and Utility (Utilitas); architecture can be said to be a balance and coordination among these three elements, with none overpowering the others. ... Cranes are essential in large construction projects, such as this skyscraper Construction on the North Bytown Bridge in Ottawa, Canada. ... A joist, in architecture and engineering, is one of the supporting bars that run from wall to wall to support a ceiling (or floor). ... Cross-country skiing (aka XC skiing) is an adventure and fitness activity as well as a competitive winter sport popular in many countries with large snowfields, primarily in Europe and Canada. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music MusicNovatory: the science of music encyclopedia Science of Music... In music, a bow is a device pulled across the strings of a string instrument in order to make them vibrate and emit sound. ... A string inyustrument (also stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. ... Camber of Culdi, aka Saint Camber, is a prominent and important character in the fictional Deryni novels, written by Katherine Kurtz. ... The Deryni Novels are a series of fantasy books written by Katherine Kurtz, set in and around the fictional kingdom of Gwynedd, which occupies an alternative version of western Europe during the Middle Ages. ...