"superelevation" meaning in English

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        "The angle that a gun must be elevated above the line of its target to allow for the effect of gravity on the projectile."
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          "ref": "1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Maagazine, page 263",
          "text": "In the third place, the superelevation and alignment of the track, theoretically calculated for speeds of 70 to 75 m.p.h., was adequate for the 80 to 85 m.p.h. or so normally attained as maxima over the G.N. main line; but nothing whatever had been done to prepare it for the enormous increment over these figures that this run was to produce.",
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