"flexure" meaning in All languages combined

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  "word": "flexure"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flexures",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "flexure f (plural flexures)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French countable nouns",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French feminine nouns",
        "French lemmas",
        "French nouns",
        "fr:Geology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "flexure"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "geology",
          "geology"
        ],
        [
          "flexure",
          "flexure#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geology) flexure"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "flexure"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flexūre",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "participle form",
        "head": "flexūre"
      },
      "expansion": "flexūre",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin non-lemma forms",
        "Latin participle forms"
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "flexūrus"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "vocative masculine singular of flexūrus"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "flexūrus",
          "flexurus#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "masculine",
        "participle",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "flexure"
}