proverse meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

proverse

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Etymology From Latin prōversus (“turned forwards”), perfect passive participle of prōvertō (“to turn forwards”), from prō- (“before, in front of”) + vertō (“to turn”). By surface analysis, pro- + -verse. Doublet of prose.

Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences 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!1995, Jan Roskam, Airplane Flight Dynamics and Automatic Flight Controls, page 117:

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.1994, Earl F. Hoerner, Head and Neck Injuries in Sports, page 322:
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.1999, Missouri Law Review, volume 64, page 770:

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Proverse selection is the opposite of the more familiar "adverse selection" problem in which individuals who know or suspect that they will need insurance are more likely to apply for it.[…]Proverse selection[…]operates as an incentive to reveal positive information about one's risk profile, even if not required (or, sometimes, even if prohibited).2014, Timothy S Hall, “The quantified self movement: Legal challenges and benefits of personal biometric data tracking”, in Akron Intellectual Property Journal, volume 7, number 1:
A risk proverse or risk loving person would be more willing to take the risk if there is a chance of yielding higher value design alternatives.2016, Tenkasi R. Subramanian, Adam R. Khol, Hanumanthrao Kannan, Eliot H. Winer, Christina L. Bloebaum, Bryan Mesmer, “Understanding the Impact of Uncertainty on the Fidelity of the Value Model”, in 54th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting:

In the typical or canonical direction, order, or orientation.

But this, like every other, has its proverse and reverse aspects.1898, Edward Thomas Owen, The Meaning and Function of Thought-connectives, page 37:
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.2004, Yvan Nadeau, Safe and Subsidized: Vergil and Horace Sing Augustus, page 151:

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This paper explores the new field of active control of proverse (conventional) and converse buckling in piezoelectrically actuated beams using Post-Buckled Precompressed (PBP) elements.2008 April, Roelof Vos, Ron Barrett, Daniel Zehr, “Magnification of work output in PBP class actuators using buckling/converse buckling techniques”, in 49th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference:
The subject-matter of this paper is the structural mechanism of the proverse and reverse word-compounding as a word-building process in modern English while having the model of word-combination as a starting basis for such transformations.2019, Igor V Chekulay, Olga N Prokhorova, Vladislav A Kuchmisty, “The Mechanisms of Proversion and Reversion in Producing the Compounds of the English Language”, in Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 2, Yazykoznanie [Science Journal of Volgograd State University. Linguistics], volume 18, number 1, page 170:

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.1971, Guzārish, page 39:
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[…]1996, Paleopelagos, volume 6, page 99:

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The ribs outline is similar, also if the occurrence of proverse ribs seems more frequent.2008, Rivista Italiana Di Paleontologia E Stratigrafia, volume 114, page 404:

Biology, History, Human sciences, Natural sciences, Paleontology, Sciences 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.1970, T. P. Crimes, J. C. Harper, Trace Fossils, page 457:
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).2007, Adolf Seilacher, Trace Fossil Analysis, page 192:

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The proverse direction of leg marks in the anterior and long, deep endopodal scratches make Form A strikingly similar to the Upper Cambrian or possibly lowermost Ordovician (Seilacher 2007) Australian Rusophycus latus Webby, a rusophyciform version of the Upper Cambrian Omani Cruziana omanica (Seilacher).2008, Mary-Ruth Kotelnicki, Remnants of Cruising Trilobites, page 31: