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单词 flexure
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flexuren.

Brit. /ˈflɛkʃə/, U.S. /ˈflɛkʃər/
Etymology: < Latin flexūra, < flectĕre to bend: see -ure suffix1.
1. The action of flexing or bending; curvature; an instance of this.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > [noun] > action or process
crookc1330
bowinga1398
bending1398
embowing1430
inflection1531
bent1567
curving1594
flexure1600
curbing1601
crooking1607
incurvation1608
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor Induct. sig. Bv The easie flexure of his supple hammes. View more context for this quotation
1606 No-body & Some-body sig. E4 Theres those are made For flexure, let them stoope.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiii. 409 Eumelus made most pace With his fleet mares, and he began the flexure as we thought.
1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind v. §7 A new sensation, which accompanies the flexure of joints, and the swelling of muscles.
1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 69 The way makes a flexure.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. ii. 25 By flexure of the beam or change in the points of support.
1870 J. Ruskin Lect. Art vi. 165 They give life by flexure of surface, not by quantity of detail.
figurative.1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar Ep. Ded. 1 That proposition which complies with..all the flexures of its temporall ends.
2. Flexed or bent condition; ‘the form or direction in which anything is bent’ (Johnson), bent figure or posture; bending, or winding form.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > [noun]
curvation?a1425
curvity?a1425
curvaturea1460
bent1541
bend1597
curvedness1598
flexure1628
incurvation1647
compassedness1652
deflexure1656
flexion1656
curvilinearity1756
deflection1821
wind1825
inflection1837
the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [noun] > winding curve(s) > quality or condition
sinuosity1597
tortuosity1603
flexuosity1611
flexure1628
sinuousness1684
windingness1730
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xliii. sig. H2v No Anticke screwes mens bodies into such strange flexures.
1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 15 Which..will oblige the trees to what flexure and forme you please.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 155 The contrary flexure of the Joynts of our Arms and Legs to that of Quadrupeds.
1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. I. iv. 156 Muscles, by which he [man] can give..to his tongue, any kind of flexure he pleases.
1834 Good's Bk. Nature (ed. 3) I. i. 1 The details..of planting the woods, of giving flexure to the rivers, [etc.].
1875 R. D. Blackmore Alice Lorraine II. xxiii. 323 With classic flexure of luxuriant hair.
3. A tendency to bend or be bent; a strain. Obsolete.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun]
kinda1200
disposingc1380
disposition1393
aptc1400
hieldc1400
remotiona1425
inclination?a1439
incliningc1450
taste1477
intendment1509
benta1535
swing1538
approclivity1546
aptness1548
swinge1548
drift1549
set1567
addiction1570
disposedness1583
swaya1586
leaning1587
intention1594
inflection1597
inclinableness1608
appetite1626
vogue1626
tendency1628
tendence1632
aptitude1633
gravitation1644
propension1644
biasing1645
conducement1646
flexure1652
propendency1660
tend1663
vergencya1665
pend1674
to have a way of1748
polarity1767
appetency1802
drive1885
overleaning1896
the world > space > shape > curvature > [noun] > action or process > a tendency to bend
flexure1652
1652 W. Sancroft Mod. Pol. in D'Oyly Life II. 254 There is no such equilibrious virtue, but has some flexure to one of the extremes.
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 42 The parts of the Glass are under a kind of tension or flexure.
4.
a. Power of bending. Const. of. Obsolete.
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1779 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 69 10 He..had the perfect flexure and use of his fore arm.
b. Capability of being bent; flexibility. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [noun]
pliantnessa1398
bowablenessc1475
limberness1565
bowingness1580
pliableness1581
suppleness1584
flexibility1616
pliancy1632
flexure1651
flexility1660
pliability1725
compliancy1793
facility1853
yieldiness1857
whippiness1881
bonelessness1928
1651–3 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year (1850) 154 Stiff as icicles, and without flexure as the legs of elephants.
1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. i. 2 A flexible chain (artificially wrought for the sake of flexure).
5. concrete. A thing of bent shape; the bent part of anything (e.g. a limb, river, road); a bend, curve, turn, winding.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > [noun] > a curve
bightOE
crookingc1380
curvature?a1425
bought1519
compass1545
ply1575
reflexure1578
curve1596
circumflex1601
curb1601
flexion1607
flexure1608
round1608
sinus1615
return1626
inflection1658
curvity1705
sweep1715
tarve1848
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 115 An Angle or flexure of sixteene ribbes.
1652 F. Kirkman tr. A. Du Périer Loves Clerio & Lozia 91 Her Coif..with flexures in it for her hair to pass out most compleatly curled.
c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide i. v. 64 [They] lose their fleshy Substance..as they approach the Flexure of the lower Jaw-bone.
1773 Hist. Brit. Dominions N. Amer. ii. v. §2. 295 From the hook or flexure..vessels get out to sea with difficulty.
1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 23 The lowest part of the sigmoid flexure of the colon.
1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision II. xxv. 105 Now the last flexure of our way we reach'd.
1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 152 The arched entrance to the north porch, which is richly ornamented by trefoil flexures.
1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. ix. 178 Her babe—that flexure of soft limbs.
1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 688 The wing from the flexure, differs..almost or quite an inch.
6. Mathematics. The bending or curving of a line or surface. In the theory of elasticity, the bending of a surface or solid. flexure of a curve: its bending towards or from a straight line. point of contrary flexure: see contrary adj. 5d.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [noun] > curvature
crookedness1651
flexure1672
flexion1704
curvature1710
1672 J. Wallis Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 538 The figure of tangents applied to the arch stretched out into a straight line, hath no contrary flexure.
1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics vi. 64 All the variety of caustics, with their cusps and points of contrary flexure.
1856 E. B. Denison Lect. Church Building iii. 93 Hogarth's line of beauty..is..in mathematical language, a curve of contrary flexure.
1857 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. (ed. 3) I. 79 This flexure is different at different angles.
1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §141 Flexure stretches one side and condenses the other temporarily.
7. Geology. A bending of strata under pressure, chiefly from below.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > bending
flexure1833
1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 316 The great flexure of the secondary and tertiary beds.
1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) ix. 196 The quartz rock..underwent..remarkable flexures without being shattered.
1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. vii. 915 Various types of flexure may be noticed.

Compounds

flexure-fault a fault in strata where flexure has occurred.
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1895 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. (ed. 4) 109 Not unfrequently a flexure changes, in one direction or the other, into a fault... Many examples of such flexure-faults have been described..from the plateaus of Colorado.

Derivatives

ˈflexured adj. [-ed suffix2] having a flexure or flexures.
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1881 R. D. Blackmore Christowell (1882) II. xiv. 276 The carven curves and flexured tracery of soft little ears.
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