flexible
Dance can improve strength, flexibility and balance.
Materials are chosen carefully for their weight, flexibility, and strength.
He does yoga to maintain flexibility.
The metal is known for its flexibility.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Flexible, loose and yielding
adrift
bendable
bendy
ductile
ductility
jointed
lax
limply
limpness
loose-fitting
ragdoll
relax
rubbery
semi-flexible
slacken
uncompressed
unconstricted
unstayed
unstuck
yielding

flexibility | American Dictionary

flexibility
noun[ U ]
us/ˌflek·səˈbɪl·ɪ·t̬i/
the quality of being able to change or be changed easily according to the situation:
The new law gives auto makers more flexibility in meeting lower pollution targets.

Examples of flexibility

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We have permitted ourselves some syntactic flexibility in presenting the metaprogram.
A distinctive feature of qualitative methods is the flexibility of research designs, particularly where ethnographic methods using a range of techniques are involved.
The representational flexibility of the hypothesis space approach demands that the complexity of the representations be controlled.
Primacy to a part reduces flexibility for the whole.
The remarkable flexibility of most educational software discourages assessment of the impact in teaching and learning.
Sensitivity and flexibility are needed for engaging with individual families, but accurate measurement is needed for systems control.
When combined with the merger provisions, it allowed substantially greater flexibility than had existed before.
The general issue is thus, how much flexibility you want for your elected politicians representing the voting population at any given point in time.
Examples include empathy, flexibility, sensitivity and courage, precise qualities varying according to the individual.
Because of joint flexibility, the manipulators are difficult to calibrate kinematically.
The need for flexibility will be particularly important as economic conditions change, and possibly economic paradigms.
The use of flexibility mechanisms is restricted to being supplemental to the domestic abatement.
This paper argues that flexibility is an important consideration in the design of housing if it is to be socially, economically and environmentally viable.
Finally, control over the frequency constraint also enables more flexibility in the quality/coverage trade-off.
It is now understood that it is not arbitrary but collectively regulated to afford the colony elevated group flexibility.
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added flexibility
Of course, we may define parameterized classes for added flexibility.
additional flexibility
Some examples should illustrate the additionalflexibility obtained with subtyping.
advantage of flexibility
Note that this geometry brings the advantageofflexibility.
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