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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FLEX'URE, n. [L. flexura.]
1. A winding or bending; the form of bending; as the flexure of a joint.
2. The act of bending.
3. The part bent; a joint.
4. The bending of the body; obsequious or servile cringe.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the state of being flexed (as of a joint) [syn: flexure, flection, flexion]
2: an angular or rounded shape made by folding; "a fold in the napkin"; "a crease in his trousers"; "a plication on her blouse"; "a flexure of the colon"; "a bend of his elbow" [syn: fold, crease, plication, flexure, crimp, bend]
3: act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased [syn: flexion, flexure] [ant: extension]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1592 1. the quality or state of being flexed ; flexion 2. turn, bend, fold

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a the act of bending or the condition of being bent. b a bend, curve, or turn. 2 Math. the curving of a line, surface, or solid, esp. from a straight line, plane, etc. 3 Geol. the bending of strata under pressure. Derivatives: flexural adj. Etymology: L flexura (as FLEX(1))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Flexure Flex"ure (?; 135), n. [L. flexura.] 1. The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending. Will it give place to flexure and low bending? --Shak. 2. A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve. Varying with the flexures of the valley through which it meandered. --British Quart. Rev. 3. (Zo["o]l.) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird. 4. (Astron.) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion. The flexure of a curve (Math.), the bending of a curve towards or from a straight line.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Bending, curving, incurvating, incurvation. 2. Bend, crook, turn, fold, winding, incurvation, curvature. 3. Curvature, mode of bending, rate of incurvation.

Moby Thesaurus

S-curve, angle, angularity, angularness, bend, bending, bow, bowing, conflexure, crease, creasing, crimp, crookedness, deflection, deflexure, diffraction, diffusion, dispersion, distortion, dog-ear, double, doubling, duplicature, flection, flex, flounce, fold, frill, gather, geanticline, geosyncline, hairpin turn, hookedness, inflection, lapel, lappet, meander, orthogonality, oxbow, plica, plication, plicature, ply, rectangularity, reflection, refraction, right-angledness, right-angularity, ruche, ruching, ruffle, scatter, skewness, sweep, torsion, tuck, turn, turning