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Word Meanings - FLEXION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection. Express the syntactical relations by flexion. Sir W. Hamilton. (more info) 1. The act of flexing or bending; a turning. 2. A bending; a part bent; a fold. Bacon.

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  • STRAIGHTENER
    One who, or that which, straightens.
  • CURVE
    Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
  • CURVATURE
    The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. Aberrancy of curvature , the deviation of a curve from a curcular form. -Absolute curvature. See under
  • INCURVATION
    1. The act of bending, or curving. 2. The state of being bent or curved; curvature. An incurvation of the rays. Derham. 3. The act of bowing, or bending the body, in respect or reverence. "The incurvations of the knee." Bp. Hall.
  • FLEXION
    Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection. Express the syntactical relations by flexion. Sir W. Hamilton. (more info) 1. The act of flexing or bending; a turning. 2. A bending; a part bent; a fold. Bacon.
  • INFLECTIONAL
    Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection. Max Müller.
  • STRAIGHTEN
    1. To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form. 2. To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account. To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose
  • INFLECTION
    The variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person, mood, voice, etc. Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice. A departure from the monotone, or reciting note, in chanting. (more
  • UNBEND
    Etym: 1. To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow. 2. A remit from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax; as, to unbend the mind from study or care. You do unbend your
  • CURVEDNESS
    The state of being curved.
  • DEFLEXION
    See DEFLECTION
  • UNBENDING
    1. Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things. Flies o'er unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope. 2. Unyielding in will; not subject to persuasion or influence; inflexible; resolute;
  • CURVET
    A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once. 2. A prank; a frolic.
  • INFLEXION
    Inflection.
  • RECURVE
    To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
  • CIRCUMFLEXION
    1. The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form. 2. A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.
  • INCURVED
    Bending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals.
  • ANTEFLEXION
    A displacement forward of an organ, esp. the uterus, in such manner that its axis is bent upon itself. T. G. Thomas.
  • REFLEXION
    See CHAUCER
  • RECURVED
    Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.
  • NONINFLECTIONAL
    Not admitting of, or characterized by, inflection.

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