Meaning of debend | Babel Free

Definitions

To unbend; to make or allow to become straight from a bent position.

rare, transitive

Examples

“Even a brain surgeon will have⟳ trouble⟳ removing an 8088 with such a puller without bending the pins a bit. However, they’re fairly malleable and they’ll submit⟳ to “debending” with needle-nose pliers a surprising number⟳ of times before snapping.”

“From my personal experience⟳ with both typew^([sic]) of cards, US and Belgian made, it seems that the American cards bend⟳ much more easily, and they are also very much tougher to 'debend'.”

“Moreover, the solid–liquid mixture is subjected to a variety of mechanically induced strains due to the interaction with the mould, the hydrostatic pressure of the liquid (called metallostatic pressure in foundry), and bending and debending operations.”

“Cost⟳ me about £600 to debend the prop and fit a new shaft and gland. Fortunately it was covered by insurance.”

“The as-prepared LCE-colloidal actuator demonstrated a bending angle (BA) of 1080° in 1.58 s in dichloromethane, accompanied with a successive debending in 0.32 s (Movie S1).”

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