Flection

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flection \Flec"tion\, n. [See {Flexion}.]
     1. The act of bending, or state of being bent.
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     2. The variation of words by declension, comparison, or
        conjugation; inflection.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flection
       n 1: the state of being flexed (as of a joint) [syn: {flexure}, {flexion}]
       2: deviation from a straight or normal course [syn: {inflection},
           {flexion}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "flection":
     S-curve, angle, angularity, angularness, bend, bending, bow,
     bowing, conflexure, crease, creasing, crimp, crookedness,
     deflection, deflexure, diffraction, diffusion, dispersion,
     distortion, dog-ear, double, doubling, duplicature, flex, flexure,
     flounce, fold, frill, gather, geanticline, geosyncline,
     hairpin turn, hookedness, inflection, lapel, lappet, meander,
     orthogonality, oxbow, plica, plication, plicature, ply,
     rectangularity, reflection, refraction, right-angledness,
     right-angularity, ruche, ruching, ruffle, scatter, skewness, sweep,
     torsion, tuck, turn, turning