Usually means: Bending under force without breaking.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word flexure:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. flexure: Merriam-Webster
  2. flexure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flexure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flexure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flexure: Vocabulary.com
  6. flexure: Wordnik
  7. flexure: Wiktionary
  8. flexure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. flexure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. flexure: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. flexure: Dictionary.com
  12. Flexure (embryology), Flexure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Flexure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. flexure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. flexure: Rhymezone
  16. Flexure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. flexure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. flexure: FreeDictionary.org
  19. flexure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. flexure: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flexure: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flexure: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. flexure: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. flexure: Sound Alike Words
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Flexure: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  6. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  7. flexure: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Flexure: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See flexures as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (flexure)

noun:  The act of bending or flexing; flexion.
noun:  A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
noun:  (engineering) A part of a machine designed to bend in operation.
noun:  (anatomy) A curve or bend in a tubular organ.
noun:  (zoology) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
noun:  (astronomy) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or subtracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.
verb:  To introduce a flexure into; to bend or flex.

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