flexure
Noun
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Noun
flexure
- The act of bending or flexing; flexion.
- A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
- British Quarterly Review
- varying with the flexures of the valley through which it meandered
- British Quarterly Review
- (anatomy) A curve or bend in a tubular organ.
- (zoology) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
- (astronomy) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or subtracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.
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