Also means
inflection (grammar)
Usage Note
Flexion in everyday French most often refers to a physical bending movement — une flexion des genoux is a knee bend or squat. In linguistics it denotes grammatical inflection, the process by which words change form. The adjective flexionnel describes highly inflected languages.
Examples
"Fais dix flexions des genoux chaque matin."
Natural Translation
Do ten knee bends every morning.

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