flextension

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of transducer that uses flexible, elastic shells to transmit and amplify displacements.
    — The dominant concept in high strain actuators is the flextension mechanism.
  2. A variable-length extension to a tool or device.
    — The catalog shows use of units as screw-in and “flextension" types, on single socket or cluster torpedo canopy units, with “add-a-pipe" and curved arms and as portable units.
  3. The extension of a deadline that allows a flexible final date (originally used to refer to Brexit, but subsequently extended to other contexts).
    — Some E.U. policymakers have argued for a “flextension” that would set a date for Britain’s E.U. exit far in the future but allow Britain to leave as soon as it comes up with a viable plan.
  4. A position in which the lower neck is flexed and upper neck extended.
    — The lubricated mask is inserted fully deflated, with the patient's head and neck in the sniffing position (lower neck flexed and upper neck extended, flextension).

词形变化

flextensions plural

词源

Blend of flex + extension
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