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- noun Plural form of
flexure .
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Examples
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The general layout of every floor develops on the always different flexures, that enriches of shades the lightness of wall coloured mastic.
Armani on 5th Avenue by Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas 2009
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Between the narratives, a story takes shape, tracing how the flexures of life become set in patterns.
Hand Me Down World by Lloyd Jones – review James Purdon 2010
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For the lens, you divide up the panels, you add flexures.
Robert Lang folds way-new origami Robert Lang 2008
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For the lens, you divide up the panels, you add flexures.
Robert Lang folds way-new origami Robert Lang 2008
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For the lens, you divide up the panels, you add flexures.
Robert Lang folds way-new origami Robert Lang 2008
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The quartz rock must have been quite pasty when it underwent such remarkable flexures without being shattered into fragments.
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The quartz rock must have been quite pasty when it underwent such remarkable flexures without being shattered into fragments.
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When the body is still more elongated, and resembles that of a serpent rather than that of a fish, as is the case in the Smuraena, there are absolutely no fins at all; and locomotion is effected by the flexures of the body, the water being put to the same use by these fishes as is the ground by serpents.
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For the veins have the shape of the entire body, like a sketch of a mannikin; in such a way that the whole frame seems to be filled up with little veins in attenuated subjects-for the space occupied by flesh in fat individuals is filled with little veins in thin ones-whereas the sinews are distributed about the joints and the flexures of the bones.
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It has one knee in each leg, and the flexures of the limb are not manifold, as some say, although they appear to be so from the constricted shape of the region of the belly.
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