flexure

The new spring, or "flexure," is designed to get the most work out of any attached muscle tissues.

“The flexure is very local,” which could have an impact on where related fractures in the ice occur, Banwell says.

He had “marked flexure of the carpal and tarsal joints of all four limbs”—that is, hooked legs.

The daily changes were quickly attributed to the flexure of the surrounding rock by the Moon's tides, but the longer seasonal cycle could have a number of explanations.

A flexure test produces tensile stress in the convex side of the specimen and compression stress in the concave side.