The state of being flexed (as of a joint).

synoniemen: flection, flexure.

Roget 279: deviation; swerving etc. v.; obliquation^†, warp, refraction; flection^†, flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure^†; declination.    diversion, digression, depart from, aberration; divergence etc. 291; zigzag; detour etc. (circuit) 629; divagation.    [Desultory motion] wandering etc. v.; vagrancy, evagation^†; bypaths and crooked ways; byroad.    [Motion sideways, oblique motion] sidling etc. v.; knight's move at chess.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 245: curvature, curvity^†, curvation^†; incurvature^†, incurvity^†; incurvation^†; bend; flexure, flexion, flection^†; conflexure^†; crook, hook, bought, bending; deflection, deflexion^†; inflection, inflexion^†; concameration^†; arcuation^†, devexity^†, turn, deviation, detour, sweep; curl, curling; bough; recurvity^†, recurvation^†; sinuosity etc. 248.    kink.    carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule^†, horseshoe, loop, crane neck; parabola, hyperbola; helix, spiral; catenary^†, festoon; conchoid^†, cardioid; caustic; tracery; arched ceiling, arched roof; bay window, bow window.    sine curve; spline, spline curve, spline function; obliquity etc. 217.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 258: fold, plicature^†, plait, pleat, ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature^†, gather, wrinkle, rimple^†, crinkle, crankle^†, crumple, rumple, rivel^†, ruck^†, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce^†, flounce, lapel; pucker, crow's feet; plication^†.    ... meer laten zien

Pools: fleksura

Deviation from a straight or normal course.

synoniemen: flection, inflection.

Act of bending a joint; especially a joint between the bones of a limb so that the angle between them is decreased.

synoniem: flexure.

Nederlands: flexie