proverse

adj

1. 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!”

2. 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.”

   “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.”

   “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).”

   “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.”

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

   “But this, like every other, has its proverse and reverse aspects.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

4. 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.”

   “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[…]”

   “The ribs outline is similar, also if the occurrence of proverse ribs seems more frequent.”

5. 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.”

   “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).”

   “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).”