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S-bends

S-bends is the plural of S-bend.

Meaning of S-bend

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

Questions about S-bends

What is S-bends the plural of?
S-bends is the plural of S-bend.

Words near S-bends in the dictionary

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

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