The act or process of bending something, or the condition of being bent.
From bend, the verb, plus -ing, the present participle suffix. In English since medieval times to describe the action of flexing or curving something.
Benting appears in metalwork and glassblowing as a crucial technique—the way you heat and bend a material determines whether it becomes a beautiful piece of art or shatters into useless fragments.
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