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downflexing

downflexing is the present participle and gerund of downflex.

Meaning of downflex

Verb

downflex (third-person singular simple present downflexes, present participle downflexing, simple past and past participle downflexed)

  1. (transitive) To force downward without breaking.
    • Second, the unusually thick (2 to 5 km, Berry and Barr, 1971; Hall, 1973; Grantz et al., 1979) sediment cover in Canada Basin may serve to downflex the underlying oceanic crust and produce a greater than normal state of stress across the adjacent margin which is presently coupled to the seafloor...1982, R. A. Scrutton, Dynamics of Passive Margins, →ISBN, page 22
  2. (intransitive) To bend or stretch downward.
    • The continent edge would downflex as the ocean floor is loaded by a continental-rise prism.1967, Institute for Oceanography, Collected Reprints-national Ocean Survey, page 305

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Noun

downflexing (plural downflexings)

  1. An act of downflexing or an instance where something has been downflexed.
    • In certain regions of horizontal platform strata, there occur sharp downflexings of strata in the form of monoclines.1981, Arthur Newell Strahler, Physical geology, page 453
    • Thus the "step-like thickening of the crust" mentioned by Sobczak & Stephens (1974) may be coincident with a block fault system at the margin of the Franklinian geosyncline, movements along which caused downflexing and subsidence that controlled trough sedimentation.1982, Nares Strait and the drift of Greenland, →ISBN, page 189

Forms of downflexing

pluraldownflexings

Questions about downflexing

What does downflexing mean?
Downflexing means an act of downflexing or an instance where something has been downflexed.
What is downflexing the present participle and gerund of?
Downflexing is the present participle and gerund of downflex.
What part of speech is downflexing?
Downflexing is a noun.
What is the plural of downflexing?
The plural of downflexing is downflexings.

Words near downflexing in the dictionary

  1. downfell
  2. downfield
  3. downflex
  4. downflexed
  5. downflexes
  6. downflexing
  7. downflexings
  8. downflood
  9. downflooded
  10. downflooding
  11. downflooding angle

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