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English
Etymology
From de- + bend.
Verb
debend (third-person singular simple present debends, present participle debending, simple past and past participle debent)
- (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 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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