Flex
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Flex or FLEX may refer to:
Science and technology
- Bending, also known as flexure, as used in mechanics
- Power cord, or flex, a flexible electrical cable
- Flex, a flexible cable, as used on electrical appliances
- Flex circuit, a flexible printed circuit used in electronic assemblies
- Femtosecond Lenticule EXtraction, a form of refractive eye surgery
- Flex-fuel, a flexible-fuel vehicle
- FLEX mission, a potential satellite launch mission by the European Space Agency
- Frequency Level Expander, a Pioneer Corporation tape enhancement feature
- Flex temp, a reduced takeoff thrust setting which trades excess performance for reduced engine wear
- Inflection point, of a curve in geometry
- Flexion, in anatomy, a position made possible by the joint angle decreasing
Computing
- Apache Flex, formerly Adobe Flex, technologies for developing rich internet applications
- Flex (language), developed by Alan Kay
- Flex lexical analyser, a free software alternative to lex
- Flex machine, a computer developed by RSRE in the 1980s
- FLEX (operating system), a single-tasking operating system for the Motorola 6800
- FlexOS, a modular real-time multi-user multi-tasking operating system developed by Digital Research
- FLEX (protocol), a communication protocol for pagers
- FLEX (SIL FieldWorks Language Explorer), an open source application for linguists developed by SIL International
- Flex, a family of automatic test equipment produced by Teradyne
Music
- Flex (singer), Félix Danilo Gómez (born 1974), Panamanian singer
- Flex Alexander, Mark Alexander Knox (b. 1970), an American actor and comedian
- Flex (album), Lene Lovich's 1979 second album
- Flex (EP) a 2003 EP by Pitch Black
- Funkmaster Flex, Aston George Taylor Jr (b. 1968), an American hip hop DJ
- Flex (Mad Cobra song), a 1993-94 hit song by Mad Cobra
- "Flex" (song) a 2007 hit song by Dizzee Rascal
- Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh), a 2015 song by Rich Homie Quan
- Flex refers to a break in the recitation tone before the mediation in Gregorian chant
Organizations
- Flex (company) (NASDAQ symbol: FLEX), a contract electronics maker based in Singapore
- Flex-Elektrowerkzeuge, a German producer of power tools
- Flex Your Rights, a civil-liberties non-profit based in Washington DC, US
- Flex Linhas Aéreas, a Brazilian regional airline
- Flex (club), a nightclub in Vienna, Austria
People
- Walter Flex (1887–1917), German author
Other uses
- Ford Flex, a full sized people mover vehicle
- Fleet Landing Exercises, a series of landing exercises conducted by the Fleet Marine Force, a combined-United States Navy/Marine landing force
- Future Leaders Exchange, an American student exchange program for high school students from the former Soviet Union
- Flex (comics), a fictional superhero
- Flex (magazine), an American bodybuilding magazine
- Flex (film), a commercial/short film by English director Chris Cunningham
See also
- Bend (disambiguation)
- Flexible (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with "Flex"
- All pages with titles containing Flex
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