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What (who) is Flex - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
FLEX; Flex (disambiguation); Flex (song)
flex
flex1
¦ verb
1. bend (a limb or joint).
2. contract or tense (a muscle).
3. warp or bend and then revert to shape.
4. [as adjective flexed] Archaeology relating to or denoting the practice of burying a corpse with the legs drawn up under the chin.
Origin
C16: from L. flex-, flectere 'bend'.
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flex2
¦ noun Brit. a flexible insulated cable used for carrying electric current to an appliance.
Origin
early 20th cent.: abbrev. of flexible.
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)
Examples of use of Flex
1. "I love this car in spite of it being a flex, not because it is a flex.
2. Asked about the flex, Weddell said ‘I just want to go to sleep‘." The flex was confiscated.
3. Philadelphia and New York have Flex–Time Lawyers.
4. Since those elections, Hamas has continued to flex its muscles.
5. Latino organizations know well that they have muscle to flex.