Flection

Definition: Flection

Flection

Noun

1. Deviation from a straight or normal course.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Flection \Flec"tion\, noun. [See Flexion.]. (references)

Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Flection

Curvature

Curvature, curvity, curvation; incurvature, incurvity; incurvation; bend; flexure, flexion, flection; conflexure; crook, hook, bought, bending; deflection, deflexion; inflection, inflexion; concameration; arcuation, devexity, turn, deviation, detour, sweep; curl, curling; bough; recurvity, recurvation; sinuosity.

Deviation

Noun: deviation; swerving; Verb: obliquation, warp, refraction; flection, flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure; declination.

Crosswords: Flection

Albanian

fleksion (flexion), përkulje (bend, Bob, bow, crouch, curtsey, curtsy, curvature, droop, flex, flexion, flexure, incurvation, incurvature, inflection, reverence, sag, stoop, warp), mbaresë (termination). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لية (ply), ‏لي (contortion, flexion, mine, to me, torsion, twisting), ‏إنثناء (flexion, flexure, inflection, ruckle, sag), ‏إلتواء (bow, inflection, obliqueness, reflection, reflexion, torsion, winding), ‏ثنية (fold, goffer, plait, pleat, ply, ruck, shirring, tuck), ‏ثني (bend, flex, flexion, pleat, pleating, turn up). (various references)

Bulgarian 

склонение (declension, flexion), свиване (compression, constriction, contraction, cringing, crouch, flick, inflection, inflexion, retraction, shrink, shrinkage, shrug), флексия (flexion, flexure, inflection, inflexion), прегъване (flexion, inflection, inflexion), извивка (bend, convolution, crook, curve, flexion, fold, incurvation, indentation, kink, return, sinuosity, sweep, tortuousity, twine, twist, wave, wind, winding). (various references)

Czech

ohnutí (flex, flexion, incurvation). (various references)

Danish

fleksion (flexion), bøjning (bend, bending, diffraction, elbow union, field elbow, flexion, flexure, hogging, inflection, inflexion, reverse bend). (various references)

Dutch

flexio (flexion), flexie (flexion), gebogen toestand (flexion), buiging (accent, bow, curtsy, obeisance), bocht (bend, curve, golf, gulf, refuse, rubbish, turn, waste). (various references)

French

flexion (flexion, flexure), fléchissement (flexing). (various references)

German

Beugung (bending, breaking, conjugation, declension, deflection, diffraction, inflection, inflexion). (various references)

Greek 

κάμψη (abatement, bending, flexion, flexure, slump). (various references)

Hebrew 

כפיפ�" (binding, flexion, subordination), כפוף (bent, bowed, bowing, crooked, flexion, hunched up, inclined, reclinate, subject, subordinate, subordination, subservient). (various references)

Hungarian

pöttyözés. (various references)

Italian

flessione (decrease, diffraction, dip, drop, flexing, flexion, flexure, inflection, inflexion). (various references)

Pig Latin

ectionflay.(various references)

Romanian

flexiune (flexion, inflexion), îndoiturã (bent, buckle, cockle, crack, crease, fold, sag). (various references)

Russian 

сгибание (flexion, incurvation, incurvature, inflection, inflexion), кривизна (curvature, curve, flexion, flexure, incurvation, twist, wryness), изгиб (arc, bend, crook, curvature, curve, double, flexure, incurvation, inflection, meanders, offset, twist, wriggle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

fleksija (accidence, flexion, inflection). (various references)

Spanish

flexión (flexion, sag). (various references)

Swedish

krök (bend, crook, elbow, inflection, loop, twist), böjning (bending, conjugation, crook, curve, declension, deflection, deflexion, flexion, flexure, inclination, incurvation, incurvature, inflection, inflexion). (various references)

Turkish

kıvrım (bend, convolution, crease, Crimp, curve, flexion, fold, frizz, hook, meander, plait, plat, sinuosity, sweep, twine, twirl, twist, undulation, volute), esneme (bending, flexion, gape, oscitation, spring, stretch, yawn, yawning, yield), bükülme (contortion, distorsion, flexion, Rick, torsion, twist, wrench, wrick), çekim (attraction, conjugation, declension, draw, filming, flexion, flexional, force of gravity, gravitation, gravitational, gravity, inflection, inflexion, pull, shoot, shooting, shot). (various references)

Ukrainian

кривизна (anfractuosity, bending, bent, bulging, camber, curvature, curve, flexion, hogging), згин (bending, bight, buckle, crease, flexion, fold, ply, wimple, wind, winding, wriggle). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "flection": flections. (additional references)

Words ending with "flection": antireflection, deflection, genuflection, inflection, reflection, retroflection, retroreflection. (additional references)

Words containing "flection": deflections, genuflections, inflectional, inflectionally, inflections, noninflectional, reflectional, reflections, retroflections, retroreflections. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: inflect, lection.

-2 letters: cineol, citole, client, confit, enolic, entoil, infect, lectin, lentic, noetic, notice, olefin.

-3 letters: cento, cleft, clift, cline, clone, colin, conte, elfin, elint, eloin, feint, felon, filet, flint, flite, inlet, lento, lotic, nicol, often, oleic, olein, ontic, telic, teloi, toile, tonic.

-4 letters: ceil, celt, cent, cine, cion, cite, clef, clit, clon, clot.

+1 letter: flections.

+2 letters: conflicted, deflection, flounciest, inflection, reflection.

+3 letters: affectional, confidently, conflictive, counterfoil, defalcation, deflections, inflections, malefaction, reflections.

+4 letters: conferential, confidential, counterfoils, defalcations, felicitation, fictionalise, fictionalize, frictionless, functionless, genuflection, infectiously, infelicitous, inflectional, liquefaction, malefactions, proficiently, reflectional.

+5 letters: affectionally, affectionless, confiscatable, felicitations, fictionalised, fictionalises, fictionalized, fictionalizes, fractionalize, genuflections, liquefactions, malfunctioned, metafictional, microfilament, nonreflecting, perfunctorily, rarefactional, retroflection.