Flex

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flex
       n : 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}] [ant:
          {straighten}]
       4: bend a joint; "flex your wrists"; "bend your knees" [syn: {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: {bend}, {deform},
           {twist}, {turn}] [ant: {unbend}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Flex
       
           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)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  FLEX
       
           1. Faster LEX.  A reimplementation of the {Lex}
          {scanner} generator by Vern Paxson .
       
          {Flex++} produces {C++} and {aflex} produces {Ada}.
       
          FTP flex-2.3.8.tar.Z from a {GNU archive site} or
          {(ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pub/flex-2.4.3.tar.Z)}.
       
          ["The FLEX Scanner Generator", Vern Paxson ,
          Systems Engineering, LBL, CA].
       
          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)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Flex++
       
          {GNU}'s {Flex} {scanner generator} retargeted to {C++} by
          Alain Coetmeur .  Version 3.0.
       
          {(ftp://iecc.com/pub/file/flex++.tar.gz)}.
          {(ftp://iecc.com/pub/file/misc++.tar.gz)}.
         
       {(ftp://ftp.th-darmstadt.de/pub/programming/languages/C++/tools/flex++-3.0.tar.gz)}.
       
          (1993-07-08)