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flex [n]

1)	the act of flexing; "he gave his biceps a flex to impress the ladies"

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flexion

flex [v]

1)	contract; "flex a muscle"

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contract

2)	exhibit the strength of; "The victorious army flexes its invincibility"

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flash

3)	form a curve; "The stick does not bend"

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bend

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change_form flexion bend bender bend straighten crook arc incurvate replicate angle bend double cower curl

4)	bend a joint; "flex your wrists"; "bend your knees"

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bend

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move flection flexion

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"

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bend deform turn twist

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change_form deformation contortion bender bend unbend dent incurvate gnarl crank convolute

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

1. Faster LEX. A reimplementation of the Lex scanner generator by Vern Paxson vern@ee.lbl.gov.

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 vern@ee.lbl.gov, 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)

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