Definitions for flexures

flexures flex·ure

Spelling: [flek-sher]
IPA: /ˈflɛk ʃər/

Flexures is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 170 anagrams from letters in flexures (eeflrsux).

Definitions for flexures

noun

  1. the act of flexing or bending.
  2. the state of being flexed or bent.
  3. the part bent; bend; fold.

Origin of flexures

First recorded in 1585-95, flexure is from the Latin word flexūra a bending, turning, winding. See flex1, -ure

Examples for flexures

The defect is most serious where wood is subjected to flexure, as in beams.

The flexure and sinking of the crust are undeniable realities.

On the fourth day the flexure is still greater than on the third, but on the fifth and succeeding days it becomes less obvious.

It is this flexure which causes the change in the position of the larva.

The upper apparent constriction however seems merely to indicate the line of flexure of the upper part of the cell upon the lower.

If these shift when the points of support of the lens are shifted, flexure may be suspected.

The flexure of the floor of the brain is however quite as considerable in the Teleostei as in other types.

The amount of this flexure varies somewhat in different forms.

Their courses run somewhat independently of the lines of flexure.

This theory eliminated the flexure of the support and the curvature of the knives from the reduction of observations.

Word Value for flexures
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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