debend

From de- +‎ bend.

debend (third-person singular simple present debends, present participle debending, simple past and past participle debent)

1. (transitive, rare) To unbend; to make or allow to become straight from a bent position.
   • 1987 October, Kevin Strehlo, “Turbo Wars”, in Business Software, volume 5, number 10, →ISSN, page 42:

     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.

   • 1997 February 10, Carl Eric Codere, “Visions: MANGLED CARDS and Rarer Rares.”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy‎ (Usenet):

     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'.

   • 1999, C.L. Martin, D. Favier, M. Suéry, “Fracture behaviour in tension of viscoplastic porous metallic materials saturated with liquid”, in International Journal of Plasticity, volume 15, number 10, →DOI, page 986:

     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.

   • 2006 November 1, Will Chapman, “Re: Prop Size”, in uk.rec.waterways‎ (Usenet):

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

   • 2018, Yuanyuan Shang, Junchao Liu, Manbo Zhang, Wanli He, Xinyu Cao, Jingxia Wang, Tomiki Ikeda, Lei Jiang, “Reversible solvent-sensitive actuator with continuous bending/debending process from liquid crystal elastomer-colloidal material”, in Soft Matter, volume 14, number 27, →DOI, pages 5547–5553:

     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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