inflexure
English edit
Noun edit
inflexure (plural inflexures)
- An inflection; a bend or fold.
- 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 139:
- [T]he contrivance of nature is ſingular in the opening and ſhutting of Bindvveeds performed by five inflexures, diſtinguiſhable by pyramidcall figures, and alſo different colours.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “inflexure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin edit
Participle edit
īnflexūre