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S-bend

S-bend noun: an S-shaped bend, usually the bend in a waste pipe, or in a road.

Noun

S-bend (plural S-bends)

  1. An S-shaped bend, usually the bend in a waste pipe, or in a road.
    • The line to Uganda goes up the side of a slope in a series of S-bends, and as the telegraph wires follow the line, from below they look like a forest as they thread backwards and forwards about six times.1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 266

Forms of S-bend

pluralS-bends

Questions about S-bend

What does S-bend mean?
S-bend means an S-shaped bend, usually the bend in a waste pipe, or in a road.
What part of speech is S-bend?
S-bend is a noun.
What is the plural of S-bend?
The plural of S-bend is S-bends.

Words near S-bend in the dictionary

  1. S-A nodes
  2. s-aorist
  3. s-aorists
  4. s-band
  5. s-bands
  6. S-bend
  7. S-bends
  8. s-block
  9. s-bomb
  10. s-bombs
  11. S-box

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