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Flexible [ Botany  ]

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Synonyms:  Flexile, flexuous,  Plastic, Pliant, Pliable
Antonym: Stiff, Rigid, Inflexible 
Adverb: Pliably
Noun: Flexibility, Flexure, Flexibleness ( bounce, ductility, elasticity,  malleability, malleableness, plasticity, pliability, pliableness, pliancy, pliantness)
       
  Flexible. Capable of being bent without breaking or injury under the influence of an outside force.  
  Flexibility: The property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped. Flexibility is the inverse of stiffness.  
  Flexibleness The quality or state of being flexible  
 
The flexibility is the property of being bent When a force is applied to a structure, there is a displacement in the direction of the force; flexibility is the ratio of the displacement divided by the force. High flexibility means that a small load produces a large displacement.
     
To Flex [ Transitive and  intransitive verb  ]  
( Flexed, flexing, flexes )
     
. The act of bending or putting something in a state of flexion.  
   
     

 

 

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