Crossword clues for flexure
flexure
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flexure \Flex"ure\ (?; 135), n. [L. flexura.]
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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?
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A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
Varying with the flexures of the valley through which it meandered.
--British Quart. Rev. (Zo["o]l.) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
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(Astron.) 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "action of flexing or bending," from Latin flextura, from flectere "to bend" (see flexible). From 1620s as "flexed or bent condition; direction in which something is bent." Picked up in mathematics (1670s), geology (1833).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of bending or flexing; flexion. 2 A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve. 3 (context anatomy English) A curve or bend in a tubular organ. 4 (context zoology English) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird. 5 (context astronomy English) 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.
WordNet
n. the state of being flexed (as of a joint) [syn: flection, flexion]
an angular or rounded shape made by folding; "a fold in the napkin"; "a crease in his trousers"; "a plication on her blouse"; "a flexure of the colon"; "a bend of his elbow" [syn: fold, crease, plication, crimp, bend]
act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased [syn: flexion] [ant: extension]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "flexure".
Not only were the bracing bars designed to calculated stresses, and the continuity of the girders taken into account, but the validity of the calculations was tested by a verification on the actual bridge of the position of the points of contrary flexure of the centre span.
If, however, hinges or joints are introduced at the points of contrary flexure, they become necessarily points where the bending moment is zero and ambiguity as to the stresses vanishes.
Even in the rude circumferential rim or wall of wax round a growing comb, flexures may sometimes be observed, corresponding in position to the planes of the rhombic basal plates of future cells.
A drill of eyelids, bended neck and knee, Hanging our prayers on binges, till we ape The flexures of the many-jointed worm.
What gross colonic events, may I ask, are taking place in the area of my sigmoid flexure, Softly thought, stressing to himself the importance of such inquiries, Mainwarì.