| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To bend, curve, twist, crook or camber.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To sag, sink or broach. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To yield, flinch or give. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To weaken or soften. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To fold, crease or plait. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To squirm or writhe. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To kink or bow. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To drape or unfold. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To bear or carry.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Present participle conjugation of the verb flex.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (flex) | 1. Contract; "flex a muscle".[Wordnet]. 2. Exhibit the strength of; "The victorious army flexes its invincibility".[Wordnet]. 3. Form a curve.[Wordnet]. 4. Bend a joint; "flex your wrists".[Wordnet]. 5. Cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form.[Wordnet]. 6. Form a curve; "The stick does not bend".[Wordnet]. 7. To bend; as, to flex the arm.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: flexing, flexed, flexes, flexor, flexors, flexingly and flexedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "FLEXING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FLEXING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Mining | The bending of the conveyor belt that takes place as it wraps around the pulleys. The ply nearest the face of the pulley is under the minimum stress and the ply farthest from the face is under the maximum stress. Flexing stresses increase with a decrease in pulley diameters. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: flex
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Body flex | Although for some time body flex was a result of attempts to keep a car's weight down, makers such as Audi (the A8), and Jaguar (with the 2003 XJ8) have employed the use of aluminium in chassis production to get around this obstacle, ensuring the weight of these cars and their level of body flex can both be kept to a minimum. (references) | ||
| Busta Flex | Busta Flex is a French rapper. (references) | ||
| FLEX (operating system) | The FLEX singletasking operating system was developed by the company TSC for the Motorola 6800 in the 1970s. It was also later ported to the Motorola 6809. (references) | ||
| Flex dollar | Flex dollars are a form of payment used at large institutions, especially Universities James Madison University and University College in the University of Toronto are two schools that use this system. Flex dollars were not an actual monetary unit, but rather some monetary substance which would get you things at the school such as food, snacks, and school supplies. (references) | ||
| Flex lexical analyser | The Flex lexical analyser generator is a free software alternative to Lex. (references) | ||
| Flex link/Temp | Flex Links are a new technology which is intended as a replacement for the link redundancy obtained in Lans using spanning tree protocol. Using this protocol from a pair of a Layer 2 interfaces one can be configured to act as a backup for the other. This is used generally in service provider or enterprise networks to avoid running STP on the switch. (references) | ||
| Flex machine | The Flex machine was developed at the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency in Malvern during the 1980s. It used a tagged storage scheme to implement a capability architecture, and was designed for the safe and efficient implementation of strongly-typed procedures. (It should not be confused with either the Flex programming language or an Operating System for 6800 microcomputers). (references) | ||
| Flex Mentallo | Flex Mentallo first appeared in 1990 in issue #35 of Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol, as a member of the audience for Danny the Street's Perpetual Cabaret. Later in the storyline, Flex realizes that he is actually "The Man of Muscle Mystery", and tidies his appearance. Flex is revealed to be not an entirely original creation, but rather a riff on the post-workout protagonist of Charles Atlas' long-running "The Insult that made a Man out of Mac" advertisement from American comics. (references) | ||
| Flex programming language | Flex is an object oriented general-purpose programming language that insists on reliability and security. Its authors from a Czech company [http://www.alsoft.cz/en/ A && L soft, s.r.o.] have primarily been inspired by Ada. (references) | ||
| Funkmaster Flex | Funkmaster Flex (born Aston Taylor in Brooklyn, NY) is a popular hip hop DJ on New York's Hot 97 radio station. What separates Funkmaster Flex apart from other DJs is his mainstream popularity and accessible image. In its current state, Hip hop publicity almost always focuses on the emcee. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: flex
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Flex | Computing | Flex | |
| Flex 2 | Computing | Flex 2 A preprocessor designed to make Fortran look more like Pascal. (About 1980). DECUS?. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.. | |
| Flex acreage | Agriculture | The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 mandated that deficiency payments not be made on 15% of a farm's crop acreage base, called normal flex acres. The acreage could be planted to any program crop (called flexing), but not fruits and vegetables. An additional 10% of the farm's base acreage could be flexed at the option of the operator. Flexing did not diminish the crop acreage base of a farm. The FAIR Act of 1996 effectively provides total flexibility among all commodities, except for fruits and vegetables. (references) | |
| Normal flex acreage | Agriculture | A provision of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 requiring a mandatory 15% reduction in payment acreage. Under this provision, producers were ineligible to receive deficiency payments on 15% of their crop acreage base (not including any acreage removed from production under any production adjustment program). Producers, however, were allowed to plant any crop on this acreage, except fruits, vegetables, and other prohibited crops. Normal flex acreage no longer exists under the FAIR Act of 1996. (references) | |
| Optional flex acreage | Agriculture | Under the planting flexibility provision of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the FACT Act of 1990, producers could choose to plant up to 25% of the crop acreage base to other CCC-specified crops (except fruits and vegetables) without a reduction in crop acreage bases on the farm, but receive no deficiency payments on this acreage. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 further amended the 1949 Act to make a 15% reduction in payment acreage mandatory. The remaining 10% was optional flex acreage. Optional flex acreage was eligible for deficiency payments when planted to the program crop. Optional flex acres no longer exist under the FAIR Act of 1996. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: flex
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| FLEX | English | Fladen Ground Experiment | Geography | |
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