Camber

Camber may refer to:

Camber, East Sussex, a seaside resort in England, near to Camber Sands.
Royal Camber Lawn Tennis Club - Dulwich Village Tennis Club in London

Camber also has slightly different meanings in different technical fields:

See camber angle for the use of the term in automobile technology
In steel industry term camber in rolls is used. Hot rolling uses positive camber. Rolls are concave shaped. cold rolling uses negative camber rolls are covex shaped.
In aeronautical engineering camber is the asymmetry between the top and the bottom curves of an aerofoil. Cambered aerofoils generate lift at positive, zero, or even small negative angle of attack, whereas a symmetric aerofoil only has lift at positive angles of attack.
In road construction camber is a measure of the convex curvature of a road.
In architecture and building construction camber is an upward curvature of the a joist or joist girder intended to compensate for deflection due to loading conditions.
In cross country skiing, camber refers to the amount of curve in the base of a ski (cross country skis are generally not flat).
In music, camber refers to the curvature of a bow used to play certain string instruments.
Kamber

Camber is also the name of a prominent character in the fictional series of Deryni novels.

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