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English
Etymology
From super- + elevation.
Pronunciation
Noun
superelevation (plural superelevations)
- The angle that a gun must be elevated above the line of its target to allow for the effect of gravity on the projectile.
- The cant of a railway track; the difference in elevation (height) between its two edges, as on a curve.
1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:In the third place, the superelevation and alignment of the track, theoretically calculated for speeds of 70 to 75 m.p.h., was adequate for the 80 to 85 m.p.h. or so normally attained as maxima over the G.N. main line; but nothing whatever had been done to prepare it for the enormous increment over these figures that this run was to produce.