flexion
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 7
Definition of flexion
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)The act of bending a joint, especially a bone joint; the counteraction of extension.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)The act of bending a joint, especially a bone joint; the counteraction of extension.
- (countable, uncountable)The state of being bent or flexed.
- (countable, uncountable)Deviation from straightness.
- (countable, dated, uncountable)The variation of words by declension, comparison, or conjugation; inflection.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin flexiō, from flectō (“to bend, curve”) + -tiō, possibly via French. By surface analysis, flex + -ion.
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