S-bend

noun

An S-shaped bend, usually the bend in a waste pipe, or in a road.

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Meanings

nounS-bend (plural S-bends)

plural S-bends

  1. An S-shaped bend, usually the bend in a waste pipe, or in a road.

    The line to Uganda goes up the side of a slope in a series of S-bends, and as the telegraph wires follow the line, from below they look like a forest as they thread backwards and forwards about six times.

    1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 266
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APA

S-bend. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/S-bend

MLA

“S-bend.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/S-bend. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “S-bend,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/S-bend.

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