S-bend
noun1
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:
- Related terms
- reverse curve