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flexure
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
FLEXURE
n.[L. flexura.] 1. A winding or bending; the form of bending; as the flexure of a joint.
2. The act of bending.
3. The part bent; a joint.
4. The bending of the body; obsequious or servile cringe.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
FLEXURE
Flex "ure, n. Etym: [L. flexura.]
1. The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending. Will it give place to flexure and low bending Shak.
2. A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve. Varying with the flexures of the valley through which it meandered. British Quart. Rev.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
4. (Astron.)
Defn: The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion. The flexure of a curve (Math. ), the bending of a curve towards or from a straight line.
New American Oxford Dictionary
flexure
flex ure |ˈflekSHər ˈflɛkʃər | ▶noun chiefly Anatomy Geology the action of bending or curving, or the condition of being bent or curved. • a bent or curved part: these lesser hills were flexures of the San Andreas system. DERIVATIVES flex ur al |-rəl |adjective ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Latin flexura, from flectere ‘to bend. ’
Oxford Dictionary
flexure
flexure |ˈflɛkʃə | ▶noun [ mass noun ] technical, chiefly Anatomy & Geology the action of bending or curving, or the condition of being bent or curved. • [ count noun ] a bent or curved part: these lesser hills were flexures of the San Andreas system. DERIVATIVES flexural adjective ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Latin flexura, from flectere ‘to bend ’.
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