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Borrowed from Latin flexiō, from flectō (“to bend, curve”) +‎ -tiō, possibly via French. By surface analysis, flex +‎ -ion.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈflɛk.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -ɛkʃən

flexion (countable and uncountable, plural flexions)

1. The act of bending a joint, especially a bone joint; the counteraction of extension.
2. The state of being bent or flexed.
3. Deviation from straightness.
4. (grammar, dated) The variation of words by declension, comparison, or conjugation; inflection.

Borrowed from Latin flexiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /flɛk.sjɔ̃/

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flexion f (plural flexions)

1. (grammar) inflection

• “flexion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012