Word Meanings - DEFLEXION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See DEFLECTION

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEFLEXION)

• Curve
• Incurvation
• flexion
• deflexion

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DEFLEXION)

• Straighten
• unbend
• rectilineate

Related words: (words related to DEFLEXION)

• STRAIGHTENER
  One who, or that which, straightens.
• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• INCURVATION
  1. The act of bending, or curving. 2. The state of being bent or curved; curvature. An incurvation of the rays. Derham. 3. The act of bowing, or bending the body, in respect or reverence. "The incurvations of the knee." Bp. Hall.
• FLEXION
  Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection. Express the syntactical relations by flexion. Sir W. Hamilton. (more info) 1. The act of flexing or bending; a turning. 2. A bending; a part bent; a fold. Bacon.
• STRAIGHTEN
  1. To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form. 2. To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account. To straighten one's face, to cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose
• UNBEND
  Etym: 1. To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow. 2. A remit from a strain or from exertion; to set at ease for a time; to relax; as, to unbend the mind from study or care. You do unbend your
• CURVEDNESS
  The state of being curved.
• DEFLEXION
  See DEFLECTION
• UNBENDING
  1. Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things. Flies o'er unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope. 2. Unyielding in will; not subject to persuasion or influence; inflexible; resolute;
• CURVET
  A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once. 2. A prank; a frolic.
• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• CIRCUMFLEXION
  1. The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form. 2. A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.
• INCURVED
  Bending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals.
• ANTEFLEXION
  A displacement forward of an organ, esp. the uterus, in such manner that its axis is bent upon itself. T. G. Thomas.
• REFLEXION
  See CHAUCER
• RECURVED
  Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.
• INFLEXION
  Inflection.
• RETROFLEXION
  The act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed. Cf. Retroversion.
• INCURVE
  To bend; to curve; to make crooked. (more info) Etym:
• AEROCURVE
  A modification of the aëroplane, having curved surfaces, the advantages of which were first demonstrated by Lilienthal.