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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Flexure \Flex"ure\ (?; 135), noun [L. flexura.]
1. The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending.
Will it give place to flexure and low bending? --Shak.
2. A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
Varying with the flexures of the valley through which it meandered. --British Quart. Rev.
3. (Zo["o]l.) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
4. (Astron.) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.
{The flexure of a curve} (Math.), the bending of a curve towards or from a straight line.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
flexure
noun
1: the state of being flexed (as of a joint) [syn: {flection}, {flexion}]
2: an angular or rounded shape made by folding; "a fold in the napkin"; "a crease in his trousers"; "a plication on her blouse"; "a flexure of the colon"; "a bend of his elbow" [syn: {fold}, {crease}, {plication}, {crimp}, {bend}]
3: act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased [syn: {flexion}] [ant: {extension}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "flexure": S-curve, angle, angularity, angularness, bend, bending, bow, bowing, conflexure, crease, creasing, crimp, crookedness, deflection, deflexure, diffraction, diffusion, dispersion, distortion, dog-ear, double, doubling, duplicature, flection, flex, flounce, fold, frill, gather, geanticline, geosyncline, hairpin turn, hookedness, inflection, lapel, lappet, meander, orthogonality, oxbow, plica, plication, plicature, ply, rectangularity, reflection, refraction, right-angledness, right-angularity, ruche, ruching, ruffle, scatter, skewness, sweep, torsion, tuck, turn, turning
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