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Flexure (disambiguation)

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Flexure may refer to:

  • Flexure, a flexible element (or combination of elements) engineered to be compliant in specific degrees of freedom.
  • Bending, the behavior of a structural element subjected to a lateral load
  • Flexure bearing, a type of flexure designed to be compliant in a bending or rotation degree of freedom, providing functionality similar to a bearing or hinge
  • 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
  • Curvature, the deviation from straightness
  • Flexure (embryology) an early bending of the neural tube

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