noun
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the act of flexing or the state of being flexed
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a bend, turn, or fold
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Etymology
Origin of flexure
First recorded in 1585–95, flexure is from the Latin word flexūra a bending, turning, winding. See flex 1, -ure
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The new spring, or "flexure," is designed to get the most work out of any attached muscle tissues.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024
The team sees the flexure design as a new building block that can be combined with other flexures to build any configuration of artificial skeletons.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024
Raman and her colleagues report the details of the new flexure design in a paper appearing in the journal Advanced Intelligent Systems.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024
She and Culpepper teamed up to design a flexure specifically tailored with a configuration and stiffness to enable muscle tissue to naturally contract and maximally stretch the spring.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024
This bend, which is called the cranial flexure, takes place through the mid-brain, so that the hind-brain is unaffected by it.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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