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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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
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
"The flexure is a skeleton that we designed to be very soft and flexible in one direction, and very stiff in all other directions," Raman says.
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
He conducted observations in Berlin from April to June 1876 and, by experiment, determined the correction for flexure to be applied to the value of gravity previously obtained with the Prussian instrument.
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 Victor Fritz Lenzen
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