FLEX

v. bend; bend repeatedly; display muscles, move muscles

n. electrical cord; electrical wire; flexible insulated electrical cable

Flex may refer to: ComputingFLEX (operating system), a single-tasking operating system was developed by Technical Systems Consultants for the Motorola 6800 and 6809 MPUs beginning in the 1970sFLEX (protocol), a communication protocol developed by Motorola and used in many pagersFlex lexical analyser, a free software alternative to LexFlex machineAdobe Flex, a technology for developing rich internet applications initially released by Macromedia in March of 2004FLEX, a family of automatic test equipment produced by Teradyne
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Flex++ is a tool for creating a language parsing program. A parser generator creates a language parsing program. Flex++ is a general instantiation of the flex program.These programs perform character parsing, and tokenizing via the use of a deterministic finite automata or Deterministic finite state machine (DFA). A DFA (or NDFA) is a theoretical machine accepting regular languages. These machines are a subset of the collection of Turing machines. DFAs are equivalent to read only right moving Turing Machines or NDFAs. The syntax is based on the use of Regular expressions.
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Noun
1. the act of flexing; "he gave his biceps a flex to impress the ladies"
(hypernym) flexion, flexure
Verb
1. contract; "flex a muscle"
(hypernym) shrink, contract
2. exhibit the strength of; "The victorious army flexes its invincibility"
(hypernym) flaunt, flash, show off, ostentate, swank
3. form a curve; "The stick does not bend"
(synonym) bend
(hypernym) change shape, change form, deform
(hyponym) crook, curve
(derivation) flexion, flexure
4. bend a joint; "flex your wrists"; "bend your knees"
(synonym) bend
(hypernym) move
(derivation) flexure, 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"
(synonym) bend, deform, twist, turn
(hypernym) change shape, change form, deform
(hyponym) indent, dent

<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)

<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)

GNU's Flex scanner generator retargeted to C++ by Alain Coetmeur coetmeur@icdc.fr. 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)

Synonyms and related words:
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,