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 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 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
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
In view of Baeyer’s expressed doubts of the rigidity of the Repsold stand, Peirce performed experiments to measure the flexure of the stand caused by the oscillations of the pendulum.
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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