downflex

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that has been forced to curve downward.
    — The southern end of the Rockies plunges gradually along its sharp frontal downflex and passes into the Anton Chico monocline.
  2. Something that can bend in a downward direction.
    — Dinosaurs, as well as growing taller, developed a more pronounced downflex to lower their heads closer to the ground for better cropping techniques.
动词 v.
  1. To force downward without breaking. transitive
    — Second, the unusually thick (2 to 5 km, Berry and Barr, 1971; Hall, 1973; Grantz et al., 1979) sediment cover in Canada Basin may serve to downflex the underlying oceanic crust and produce a greater than normal state of stress across the adjacent margin which is presently coupled to the seafloor basement.
  2. To bend or stretch downward. intransitive
    — The continent edge would downflex as the ocean floor is loaded by a continental-rise prism.
形容词 adj.
  1. Showing flexibility in a downward direction. not-comparable
    — There is no downward flexibility in expenditure and credit levels. But outputs and supplies are downflex.

词形变化

downflexes present,singular,third-person downflexing participle,present downflexed participle,past downflexed past downflexes plural

词源

词源 1
From down- + flex.
词源 2
From down- + flex.
词源 3
From down- + flex.
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