downflex

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To force downward without breaking.

   • As with other gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures, the image may become redded out or obscure; when lost, withdraw the insertion tube a bit, insufflate, downflex, and search the image for visual landmarks.
2. 2

   To bend or stretch downward.

   • The continent edge would downflex as the ocean floor is loaded by a continental-rise prism.
   • As along the eastern United States, continental shelves commonly acquire a prism of sediments as the continental margin downflexes.
3. 3

   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.
   • The axis of a topographic trench of Java-Sumatra type is thus displaced far seaward, about 200 km, from the position of the fundamental downflex in the subducting oceanic plate.
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   1. 4

      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.
   2. 5

      Showing flexibility in a downward direction.

      • There is no downward flexibility in expenditure and credit levels. But outputs and supplies are downflex.
      • If the real wage rate is not downflex, the pace of adoption of technical change depends upon the elasticity in the savings supply schedule.

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