flexure
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flexure
- /ˈflɛkʃə(ɹ)/
- /ˈflɛksjʊə(ɹ)/
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From Latin flexura. By surface analysis, flex + -ure
noun flexures
- The act of bending or flexing; flexion. The gular flutter is characterized by a rapid flutter of the gular region caused by flexure and relaxation of the hyoid apparatus
- A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve. but scarce had I drawn back mine arms, strained the outward flexure of my knee-joints, and was fixed in an apt disposure to take the corvetto primo and leap-valiant of the cour, when methought suddenly there came in and did appear before me mine ancient, most reverend and singular good friend, the r
- A part of a machine designed to bend in operation.
- A curve or bend in a tubular organ. The Stomach [of a weasel] about three inches long; proportionably, more than a Dogs. An inch in Diametre at the upper Orifice; and the nether, ¼; having a flexure towards its Conjunction with the Guts: ſhaped like to the body of a pair of Bag-Pipes.
- The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
- The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or subtracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.
verb flexures · flexuring · flexured
- To introduce a flexure into; to bend or flex.
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