bends

British  

/ bɛndz /

plural noun

1. (functioning as singular or plural) a nontechnical name for decompression sickness

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Example Sentences

Jonathan did some knee bends and thought about how vacations used to be.

From Literature

This spurred Corning’s engineers to make their cables thinner, but also tougher, so they could withstand tight bends, says Claudio Mazzali, Corning’s head of research.

From The Wall Street Journal

To locate dark matter, the team measured how its mass bends space, which in turn bends the light traveling to Earth from distant galaxies -- as if that light had passed through a warped windowpane.

From Science Daily

He even bends down to rub the dirt.

From Literature

They identified a previously unseen geometric feature inside a quantum material that alters how electrons move, in a way similar to how gravity bends light.

From Science Daily