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flexatubes

flexatubes is the plural of flexatube.

Meaning of flexatube

Noun

flexatube (plural flexatubes)

  1. A folded paper puzzle created by connecting the ends of a strip of four squares, each folded along 45-degree diagonals. The solver is challenged to turn the structure inside out using only foldings.
    • At least two other completely different methods of turning the flexatube inside out are known, and both are as devious and difficult to discover as this one.1958, Scientific American - Volume 198, page 126

Questions about flexatubes

What is flexatubes the plural of?
Flexatubes is the plural of flexatube.

Words near flexatubes in the dictionary

  1. flexagons
  2. flexanimous
  3. flexatone
  4. flexatones
  5. flexatube
  6. flexatubes
  7. flexbone
  8. flexbones
  9. flexbox
  10. flexboxes
  11. flexcation

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