flexure

How To Use flexure In A Sentence

• Some are twisted like phone cords; others have sharp flexures from buckling.
• At the joints he diminished the flesh in order not to impede the flexure of the limbs, and also to avoid clogging the perceptions of the mind. Timaeus
• Speed, and its derivatives, acceleration and flexure, are based on measured time. Destiny Narrowly Avoided
• In wild-type hermaphrodites, germ cells at the dorsoventral flexure exit the pachytene stage of the first meiotic prophase and proceed to diakinesis.
• In the Ebro basin, flexure of the crust was produced mainly by the Pyrenean load, but also by the emergent thrust sheet of the Aragonese Branch.
• At a distal end of the head support arm, there is a flat portion with a swage hole for connection of the flexure assembly.
• An enema shows a normal sized rectum and small caliber sigmoid and descending colon with a transition zone in colonic caliber occurring at the level of the splenic flexure.
• The mica does not everywhere present this coarsely crystalline appearance, but in flexures and lines of union with the quartz and orthoclase is degraded to a mica schist upon whose surfaces appear uranates of lime and copper (autunite and torbernite), and in which are inclosed garnet crystals of considerable size and beauty. Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
• In crawling infants the forearms, extensor aspects of the knees, and the ankle flexures are often the most affected.
• It is impossible to behold such effects of reiterated local movements, all of post-Tertiary date, without reflecting that, but for the accidental presence of the stratified drift, all of which might easily have been missing, where there has been so much denudation, even if it had once existed, we might have referred the verticality and flexures and faults of the rocks to an ancient period, such as the era between the Chalk with flints and the The Antiquity of Man