noun
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the act of flexing or the state of being flexed
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a bend, turn, or fold
Other Word Forms
- flexural adjective
Etymology
Origin of flexure
First recorded in 1585–95, flexure is from the Latin word flexūra a bending, turning, winding. See flex 1, -ure
Example Sentences
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The flexure they ultimately designed is 1/100 the stiffness of muscle tissue itself.
From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024
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
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
Thus, Peirce discovered experimentally the flexure of the staff and derived for a simplified case the effect on the period.
From Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Papers 34-44 On Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, 1966 by Lenzen, Victor Fritz
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