con·tra·flexure
| \ ¦kän‧trə+ \
Definition of contraflexure
: a bending in opposite directions like the curve of an ogee
also
: the point where this occurs : a point of contrary flexure or inflexion that in a fixed beam is a point of zero bending moment
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