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flexure

/ˈflɛkʃə(ɹ)/

flexure noun: the act of bending or flexing; flexion.

Noun

flexure (countable and uncountable, plural flexures)

  1. The act of bending or flexing; flexion.
    • The gular flutter is characterized by a rapid flutter of the gular region caused by flexure and relaxation of the hyoid apparatus2025, Brian Speer, Yvonne R.A. van Zeeland, Current Therapy in Avian Medicine and Surgery Volume II, Elsevier, page 450
  2. A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
    • but scarce had I drawn back mine arms, strained the outward flexure of my knee-joints, and was fixed in an apt disposure to take the corvetto primo and leap-valiant of the cour, when methought suddenly there came in and did appear before me mine ancient, most reverend and singular good friend, the...1843, Bernard M— (of S—), A Dream of a Queen's Reign, page 4
    • varying with the flexures of the valley through which it meandered1860, “Glaciers”, in British Quarterly Review
  3. A part of a machine designed to bend in operation.
  4. A curve or bend in a tubular organ.
    • The Stomach [of a weasel] about three inches long; proportionably, more than a Dogs. An inch in Diametre at the upper Orifice; and the nether, ¼; having a flexure towards its Conjunction with the Guts: ſhaped like to the body of a pair of Bag-Pipes.1681, Nehemiah Grew, “The Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts Begun. Being Several Lectures Read before the Royal Society in the Year, 1676. Chapter I. Of the Stomachs and Guts of Six...
  5. The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
  6. 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.

Verb

flexure (third-person singular simple present flexures, present participle flexuring, simple past and past participle flexured)

  1. To introduce a flexure into; to bend or flex.

flexure meaning in Tamil

flexure in Tamil

உடல் தளர்ச்சி, வளைதல், வளைவு, மடக்கப் பகுதி, மடக்கம், மடிப்பு

Forms of flexure

Noun
pluralflexures
Verb
third-person singular presentflexures
present participleflexuring
past participleflexured
pastflexured

Origin of flexure

From Latin flexura. By surface analysis, flex + -ure

Words formed from flexure

Questions about flexure

What does flexure mean?
Flexure means the act of bending or flexing; flexion.
What is flexure in Tamil?
Flexure in Tamil is உடல் தளர்ச்சி, வளைதல், வளைவு. See Flexure meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is flexure?
Flexure can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce flexure?
Flexure is pronounced /ˈflɛkʃə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of flexure?
The plural of flexure is flexures.

Words near flexure in the dictionary

  1. flexuous
  2. flexuously
  3. flexuousness
  4. flexural
  5. flexurally
  6. flexure
  7. flexured
  8. flexures
  9. flexuring
  10. flexus
  11. flexwing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: flexure (page history and authors); flexure (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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