Sentence examples for flexure from inspiring English sources
noun
The act of bending or flexing; flexion.
One consequence is that mountain blocks are often bounded by fault scarps and flexure slopes that descend in step formation to the adjacent lowlands.
Scientists have speculated that if such an ocean exists, it may harbor life with the heat energy coming from the tidal flexure of Europa (which would be less extreme than that suffered by Io, but still noticeable).
When a major ramp overthrust is active and the intact continent is flexed down in front of the overriding mountain range, a foreland basin is formed by the flexure (see tectonic basins and rift valleys).
The former innervate the gastrointestinal tract from the pharynx to the left colic flexure, and the latter innervate the distal colon and rectum.
The marginal zones of the sclerites bear cones of sclerotization that are set in the flexible cuticle, thus permitting flexure in any direction without impairing strength.
An acute angle, called the duodenojejunal flexure, is formed by the suspension of this part of the small intestine by the ligament of Treitz.
Boudinage results from the stretching of a firm but flexible stratum, as during slip or flexure-slip folding.
These undulating flexures culminate in a powerful back and forth sweeping of the caudal fin, which produces as much as 85 percent of the total thrust.
Combined thicknesses of the Dalradian are thought to approach 9,100 metres (30,000 feet) and probably represent geosynclinal (downward flexures in the Earth's crust) accumulations.
Like any number of lesser hills freestanding in the region, they were flexures of the San Andreas system.
Oil people had found pay in the traps formed by such flexures.
