A.a bending back, flexure,Hp.Fract.2; of swords, D.S.5.30; curve, of the lines of a ship, Callix.1.
II.reflection of light or reverberation of sound, Arist.AP0.98a29, Sens. 437b10, al., Stoic.2.199; so of the wind, Arist.Pr.945a7; of water, ἀ. ποιεῖσθαι have its course turned,Plb.4.43.9; ἀ. τῆςσαρκὸςποιεῖσθαι make it elastic,Arist.Pr.966b17.