overbend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overbends
Etymology: From over- + bend.
Senses: examples: text: The overbend occurs mainly on the laybarge/vessel and the stinger. The setting of the rollers to obtain a radius of curvature is the main control of the overbend.
ref: 2005, Boyun Guo, Shanhong Song, Ali Ghalambor, Offshore Pipelines, page 143:
text: To find the number of degrees in the combination bend, square the side bend and the sag or overbend; add them together and extract the square root.
ref: 2015, E.W. McAllister, Pipeline Rules of Thumb Handbook, page 47:
text: Local buckling is most likely to occur in either the overbend or sagbend regions.
ref: 2015, R. Winston Revie, Oil and Gas Pipelines: Integrity and Safety Handbook, page 258:
glosses: The portion of a pipeline that curves downward from a higher level to the inflection point where the surface holding the upper part is no longer supporting the pipe.
examples: text: This becomes even more critical if you overbend and have to unbend in some area. It can be tricky to spot where the overbend is located.
ref: 1994, Jonathan D. Solomon, William Cumpiano, Guitarmaking: Tradition and Technology, page 183:
text: At present they are deep, indicating 'overbend,' because I am flattening the sail to a depth that is shallower than what I cut it to. In effect, you are getting two mainsails here – a flat one with overbend wrinkles , and a normal one without overbend wrinkles.
ref: 1995, Tom Linskey, Race Winning Strategies: Smart Lessons with Deep Dakron, page 120:
text: The hook area also includes a back-pusher contour which allows the bender to grab on in reverse to remove an overbend or to shift the bend from side to side.
ref: 2021, Frederic P. Hartwell, American Electricians' Handbook, page 9-39:
glosses: An instance of overbending (bending too far).
examples: text: This unit features precalculation of required overbend, which Datex calls " adaptive springback compensation."
ref: 1967, Product Engineering - Volume 38, page 106:
text: This incorporated the correct amount of overbend at each point to allow the frame to fit well after it had cooled off and sprung back .
ref: 1996, Peter H. Spectre, Frame, Stem, and Keel Repair, page 29:
text: Design the form to allow for overbend (20 to 30%), to compensate for springback. Too much overbend is better than too little.
ref: 2002, Lon Schleining, The Complete Manual of Wood Bending, page 25:
glosses: The amount by which a material has been overbent.
examples: text: Figure 32 is an example of an overbend on the G string: Note how my 2nd and 1st fingers are helping the 3rd finger to bend the string , while the index finger serves the added function of pushing the other strings out of the way .
ref: 1988, Helen Casabona, Basic Guitar, page 53:
text: It perfectly embodies the idea of a "feel solo," with its brilliant excursion, rife with crying bends, overbends, and just the right amount of space to let the notes resonate.
ref: 2009, Bob Gulla, Guitar Gods: The 25 Players who Made Rock History, page 94:
text: That said, Jimmy's taste was no less eclectic, the young guitarist already familiar with the wild overbends of Buddy Guy, the economical beauty of Howlin' Wolf's Hubert Sumlin and even the lush Indian sitar stylings of Ravi Shankar, of whom Page was an extremely early and vocal supporter.
ref: 2014, Martin Power, Hot Wired Guitar: The Life of Jeff Beck:
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glosses: A note that is played sharp due to overbending.
examples: text: The note you hear when you play an overbend seems to pop out of nowhere, with no slide up from another note.
ref: 2009, Winslow Yerxa, Harmonica For Dummies, page 198:
text: To reach a specific overbend note you'll have to control your breath and align the shape of the inside of your mouth to coincide with the frequency of the desired note.
ref: 2010, James Major, Complete 10-Hole Diatonic Harmonica Series: B Harmonica Book, page 9:
text: Although there are players who use precise overbends and bends to play the diatonic harmonica as a fully chromatic instrument, this is still very rare, not simply because the technique is difficult, but also because the sound of an overbend is different from the sound of other notes, as is also the case of normal bent notes.
ref: 2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, The Music Sound:
glosses: A note that is played sharp due to overbending.