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noun
1.
a projecting rim, collar, or ring on a shaft, pipe, machine housing, etc., cast or formed to give additional strength, stiffness, or supporting area, or to provide a place for the attachment of other objects.
2.
a broad ridge or pair of ridges projecting from the edge of a rolled metal shape generally at right angles, in order to strengthen or stiffen it.
3.
a ring or collar, usually provided with holes for bolts, and screwed or welded over the end of a tube or pipe to permit other objects to be attached to it.
4.
(in plumbing) a plate or flat ring bolted to the flange at the end of a length of pipe to close the end or to connect it with the flange of another such length: blind flange; spectacle flange.
verb (used without object)
5.
to project like, or take the form of, a flange.
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Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English flaunche side charge (on shield face) < Middle French flanche, feminine of flanc flank
1425–75; late Middle English flaunche side charge (on shield face) < Middle French flanche, feminine of flanc flank
Related forms
flange·less, adjective
flang·er, noun
un·flanged, adjective
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Word Origin & History
flange
1680s, perhaps related to O.Fr. flanche "flank, side," fem. of flanc (see flank).
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Medical Dictionary
flange (flānj)
n.
A projecting rim or edge.
The part of the denture base that extends from the cervical ends of the teeth to the border of the denture.
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