cloverleaf

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The point is so that large trucks won't slow down traffic having lost a bunch of energy from braking to get on a cloverleaf.

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Quick take

In the form of the leaf of a clover plant; cloverleafed.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of cloverleaf gathered in one view.

adjective

In the form of the leaf of a clover plant; cloverleafed.

verb

(intransitive) To turn by following a cloverleaf, or as if by following one.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cloverleaf.

adjective

In the form of the leaf of a clover plant; cloverleafed.

verb

(intransitive) To turn by following a cloverleaf, or as if by following one.

Example sentences

The point is so that large trucks won't slow down traffic having lost a bunch of energy from braking to get on a cloverleaf.

DD doesn't take a lot more space than a regular cloverleaf, which is commonly found all over Europe.

That's why road exits and a cloverleaf interchanges should never use perfect circle arcs to connect straight road parts.

It is however, less flexible, as the loops in cloverleaf can be shaped to fit the area.

Try that when you are making a new airliner, building a cloverleaf interchange, making a car entertainment system, and so on.

This specific interchange looks superior to both a traditional diamond and a cloverleaf for pedestrians.

The biggest benefit to stack over a cloverleaf is that cloverleaves have this issue that the same lane needs to be used for offgoing traffic to decelerate and oncoming traffic to accelerate.

A roundabout takes what could have been a village green and turns it into something just barely less terrible than a highway cloverleaf.

You don't put a cloverleaf interchange downtown so that comparison is dumb.

I think anyone who drives interstates in metro areas would agree cloverleaf interchange are generally terrible with any significant traffic.

Do you know what those cloverleaf shaped metal beams are called, and how you can learn more about building hardware prototypes with those kinds of products?

You can easily run out of options for something that tall and the German routes look like they use cloverleaf interchanges which could easily be obstacles.

Quote examples

Cloverleaf Integration Suite: "the workhorse of the Healthcare industry for processing transactions between different systems." FlightAware.com: One of the busiest sites on the Web.

[edit] The westbound on-ramp crossing appears to not be protected by a light[1], so would be similar to a cloverleaf onramp; still it's "not bad" as far as non-human-scale interchanges go.

Proper noun examples

I'm by no means an TCL, but do consider myself an expert when using it with Cloverleaf.

Cloverleaf intersections have really poor overload behavior.

Cloverleaf being worth a mention and that is written in TCL and used that near on 20 years ago for processing medical important things from banks of modems - it worked.