flex

6 definitions found

flex - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Flex \Flex\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flexed; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Flexing.] [L. flexus, p. p. of flectere to bend, perh.
     flectere and akin to falx sickle, E. falchion. Cf. Flinch.]
     To bend; as, to flex the arm.
     [1913 Webster]

  Flex \Flex\, n.
     Flax. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
     [1913 Webster]

flex - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  flex
      n 1: the act of flexing; "he gave his biceps a flex to impress
           the ladies"
      v 1: contract; "flex a muscle"
      2: exhibit the strength of; "The victorious army flexes its
         invincibility"
      3: form a curve; "The stick does not bend" [syn: bend, flex]
         [ant: straighten, unbend]
      4: bend a joint; "flex your wrists"; "bend your knees" [syn:
         flex, bend]
      5: cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form;
         "bend the rod"; "twist the dough into a braid"; "the strong
         man could turn an iron bar" [syn: flex, bend, deform,
         twist, turn] [ant: unbend]

flex - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  FLEX
  
     <language> 1. Faster LEX.
  
     2. A real-time language for dynamic environments.
  
     ["FLEX: Towards Flexible Real-Time Programs", K. Lin et al,
     Computer Langs 16(1):65-79, Jan 1991].
  
     3. An early object-oriented language developed for the
     FLEX machine by Alan Kay in about 1967.  The FLEX language
     was a simplification of Simula and a predecessor of
     Smalltalk.
  
     (1995-03-29)
  

  Flex
  
     <software, hardware> A system developed by Ian Currie (Iain?)
     at the (then) Royal Signals and Radar Establishment at
     Malvern in the late 1970s.  The hardware was custom and
     microprogrammable, with an operating system, (modular)
     compiler, editor, garbage collector and filing system
     all written in Algol-68.  Flex was also re-implemented on
     the Perq(?).
  
     [I. F. Currie and others, "Flex Firmware", Technical Report,
     RSRE, Number 81009, 1981].
  
     [I. F. Currie, "In Praise of Procedures", RSRE, 1982].
  
     (1997-11-17)
  

flex - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "flex":
     S-curve, arch, bend, bend back, bending, bow, bowing, cable,
     conflexure, contract, cord, crook, curl, curve, decurve, deflect,
     deflection, dome, embow, exercise, extension, flection, flexure,
     geanticline, geosyncline, give, hairpin turn, hook, hump, hunch,
     incurvate, incurve, inflect, inflection, lead, loop, meander,
     oxbow, recurve, reflect, reflection, reflex, retroflex, round, sag,
     stretch, swag, sweep, tense, tighten, turn, turning, vault, wind,
     wire