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flex

1  [fleks]
Use Flex in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to bend, as a part of the body: He flexed his arms to show off his muscles.
2. to tighten (a muscle) by contraction.
–verb (used without object)
3. to bend.
–noun
4. the act of flexing.
5. British.
a. any flexible, insulated electric cord; an electric cord or extension cord.
b. Slang. an elastic band, as a garter.
6. Mathematics. an inflection point.
Origin:
1515–25; (adj.) < L flexus, ptp. of flectere to bend, turn; (n.) < L flexus act of bending, equiv. to flect(ere) + -tus suffix of v. action
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flex

2  [fleks]
–adjective
Informal. flexible: a flex program of workers' benefits.
Origin:
shortening of flexible

flex-

 
a combining form representing flexible in compound words: flextime.
Also, flexi-.
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flex   (flěks)   
v.   flexed, flex·ing, flex·es

v.   tr.

  1. To bend (something pliant or elastic).

    1. To bend (a joint).

    2. To bend (a joint) repeatedly.

    3. To contract (a muscle, for example).

    4. To move by muscular control: "Sandy flexes his brow characteristically" (Scott Turow).

    1. To contract (a muscle, for example).

    2. To move by muscular control: "Sandy flexes his brow characteristically" (Scott Turow).

  4. To exhibit or show off the strength of: "They had spent six years since the lightning Six Day War flexing their invincibility" (Howard Kaplan).

v.   intr.
To bend: "His hands flexed nervously as he spoke" (Mary McCarthy).
n.  

  1. Chiefly British Flexible insulated electric cord.

  2. The act or an instance of flexing; a bending.

  3. Pliancy; flexibility: "'Resolution' has none of that modern flex we favor, with generous, built-in amounts of 'maybe'" (Melvin Maddocks).


[Latin flectere, flex-, to bend.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: flex
Pronunciation: 'fleks
Function: transitive verb
1 : to bend especially repeatedly
2 a : to move muscles so asto cause flexion of (a joint) flexing his knees> b : to move or tense (a muscle or muscles) by contraction <flexed their biceps>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

flex (flěks)
v. flexed, flex·ing, flex·es

  1. To bend.

  2. To contract a muscle.

  3. To move a joint so that the parts it connects approach each other.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Computing Dictionary

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)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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