flexure
pronunciation
How to pronounce flexure in British English:
UK ['flekʃə]
How to pronounce flexure in American English:
US ['flekʃə]
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- Noun:
- the state of being flexed (as of a joint)
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased
Word Origin
- flexure (n.)
- 1590s, "action of flexing or bending," from Latin flextura, from flectere "to bend" (see flexible). From 1620s as "flexed or bent condition; direction in which something is bent." Picked up in mathematics (1670s), geology (1833).
Example
- 1. The sexy beautiful woman itches forcefully by elder sister flexure .
- 2. Development of an extended cavity laser system by using a silicon flexure for applications in atomic physics .
- 3. When soft , the substance allows for greater flexure , but when rigid can reduce the strength of a bullet impact by more than half .
- 4. Although the mild hemiparalysis patient shang neng moved , but took the road to come , toward toward the upper limb flexure , the lower limb unbent , the paralysis lower limb walked one step delimits half circle , we special walked posture this kind the potential , was called hemiparalysis gait .
- 5. The findings of extra gallbladder organs included pericholecystic fluid collection , encapsulated fluid collection of the right upper abdominal cavity , wall swelling of the pyloric antrum and duodenum , right colic flexure and right transverse colon , and thickened mesentery .