upbend

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English

Etymology

From Middle English upbenden, equivalent to up- +‎ bend.

Verb

upbend (third-person singular simple present upbends, present participle upbending, simple past and past participle upbent)

  1. (ambitransitive) to bend upwards

Noun

upbend (plural upbends)

  1. An upward bend
    • 2016, A. Simon, M. Guttormsen, A.C. Larsen, C.W. Beausang, P. Humby, J.T. Burke, R.J. Casperson, R.O. Hughes, T.J. Ross, J.M. Allmond, R. Chyzh, M. Dag, J. Koglin, E. McCleskey, M. McCleskey, S. Ota, A. Saastamoinen, “First observation of low-energy γ-ray enhancement in the rare-earth region”, in arXiv:
      In addition, for the first time both the upbend and the well known scissors resonance have been observed simultaneously for the same nucleus.