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Flexure

noun
1.
The state of being flexed (as of a joint).  Synonyms: flection, flexion.
2.
An angular or rounded shape made by folding.  Synonyms: bend, crease, crimp, fold, plication.  "A crease in his trousers" , "A plication on her blouse" , "A flexure of the colon" , "A bend of his elbow"
3.
Act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased.  Synonym: flexion.



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"Flexure" Quotes from Famous Books



... separate at Fig. 144. A slight torsion or twist is given to the gold spring to cause it to bend with a true curvature in the act of allowing the discharging pallet to pass back after unlocking. If the gold spring is filed and stoned to the right flexure, that is, the thinnest point properly placed or, say, located, the gold spring will not continue in contact with the discharging pallet any longer time or through a greater arc than during the process of unlocking. To ...
— Watch and Clock Escapements • Anonymous

... brutal uses. To narrow a broad subject down to an illustration, let us look at a single feature, the Cymatium, as it was understood in Greece and Rome. This is a moulding of very frequent occurrence in classic entablatures, a curved surface with a double flexure. Perhaps the type of Greek lines, as represented in the previous paper on this subject, may be safely accepted as a fair example of the Greek interpretation of this feature. The Romans, on the other hand, not being able to understand and appreciate the delicacy and deep propriety of this ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, Issue 45, July, 1861 • Various

... plan. A machinist of the Chatham Dock Yard, Sylvester, was set to work (but not under my immediate command) to make a model: and this produced so much delay as ultimately to ruin the design.—On Jan. 1st I was engaged on my Paper 'On the flexure of a uniform bar, supported by equal pressures at equidistant points.'" (This was probably in connection with the support of Standards of Length, for the Commission. Ed.).—In June I attended the Meeting of the British Association at Cambridge, and ...
— Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy • George Biddell Airy



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