Cant

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What Wikipedia says

The cant of a railway track or camber of a road (also referred to as superelevation, cross slope, cross fall, or difference in crosslevel) is the difference in elevation (height) between the two rails or edges of the road.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Cant (road and rail)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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