flexure : Idioms & Phrases

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Point of contrary flexure

  • a point at which a curve changes its direction of curvature, or at which its convexity and concavity change sides.
Webster 1913

Sigmoid flexure

  • noun the s-shaped curve between the descending colon and the rectum
    sigmoid colon.
WordNet
  • (Anat.), the last curve of the colon before it terminates in the rectum. See Illust. under Digestive.
Webster 1913

The flexure of a curve

  • (Math.), the bending of a curve towards or from a straight line.
Webster 1913