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# flexibility

«flexibility» in Mova's school dictionary: **the ability to bend easily without breaking** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (flexibility — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Flexibility is the ability to bend easily without breaking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flexibility/#m1)

2) Flexibility is being able to change or fit in with new situations or plans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flexibility/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In PE and health lessons, stretching improves flexibility; in science, materials' properties (rubber has flexibility); in everyday life, flexible plans or hours; phrases: show flexibility, improve flexibility.

### examples

- Yoga helps improve flexibility. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flexibility/#x1)
- Gymnasts need great flexibility. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flexibility/#x2)
- Rubber's flexibility makes it good for tyres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flexibility/#x3)
- Teachers need flexibility when plans change. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flexibility/#x4)
- The new timetable gives more flexibility. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flexibility/#x5)

### note

Uncountable: «good flexibility», not «a flexibility». Adjective: flexible. Opposite: rigidity, stiffness.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «flexibility» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flexibility/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.