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Flash-ball A flash-ball gun ("arme à léthalité atténuée", "attenuated lethality weapon") is a hand-held weapon intended mainly for use by police officers in riot situations as an alternative to lethal firearms or baton rounds (plastic bullets). It was developed by French arms manufacturer Verney-Carron and is available in two versions.
Flash, Staffordshire Flash is a small village high in up in Staffordshire just a few miles away from the highest town in the country, Buxton in the Peak District National Park. The nearest village is Kettleshulme around 5 miles away.
Flashback In literature, film, television and other media, a flashback (also called analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened prior to the story's primary sequence of events or to fill in crucial backstory.
Flashback (media group) Flashback is the name of a controversial Swedish media group run by Jan Axelsson. It has a forum, with a large number of members, where everyone is allowed freedom of speech, therefore, the forum has been checked by the Swedish police on numerous occasions, due to its members' abundant discussions about drugs, pornography, bestiality and other controversial subjects.
Flashback (psychological phenomenon) A flashback is a psychological phenomenon in which an individual has a sudden, usually vivid, recollection of a past experience. The term is used particularly when the memory is recalled involuntarily, and/or when it is so intense that the person "relives" the experience, unable to fully recognize it as memory and not something that is happening in "real time".
Flashback arrestor A flashback arrestor is a device most commonly used in oxy-fuel welding and cutting to stop the flame from burning back up into the equipment and causing damage or explosions. The two main types are dry and wet.
Flashback Alternatives Flashback Alternatives is an Internet radio station that specializes in classic alternative music from the 80s. The Flashback Alternatives website offers a Real-Time request system, as well as a Tag-Board (Chat room) and Forums area.
Flashbackup Flashbackup is an utility originally made by Random to backup and restore Motorola phones. Later it got new abilities like flashing and creating Motorola flash files from backups, PDS editor and ability to apply patches.
Flashblock Flashblock is an extension for Flock, K-Meleon, Mozilla Application Suite, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Communicator, Netscape 8, and SeaMonkey that prevents Macromedia Flash "movies" from automatically playing when a web page is first loaded. Flashblock is primarily used to prevent banner ads that play audio or video from starting.
Flashbulb memory A flashbulb memory is a memory laid down in great detail during a personally significant event, often a shocking event of national or international importance. These memories are perceived to have a "photographic" quality.
FlashcardExchange FlashcardExchange is a website by Tuolumne Technology Group that allows users to create an account and create flashcards. The cards can be used on the website itself, or printed out to be used like traditional flashcards.
FlashCopy FlashCopy is an IBM feature supported on various IBM storage devices that allows you to make nearly instantaneous Point in Time copies of entire logical volumes or data sets. The HDS (Hitachi Data Systems) implementation providing similar function is branded as ShadowImage.
Flashes Per Minute Flashes Per Minute, or FPM, is simply the number of times a light, usually used on police cars or other emergency vehicles, blinks every minute. An example of this is the 120 FPM "Kojak style" teardrop light which can be seen at the right.
Flashflight A Flashflight is a flying disc designed to be used for night-time play similar to a Frisbee, for recreational catches between two or more individuals. The Flashflight differs from a traditional Frisbee, however, in that it has a completely enclosed single ultra-high brightness LED and fiber optics designed to distribute light from the center of the disc to the outer rim.
Flashforward A flashforward (or prolepsis, also sometimes known as flash-forward or flash-ahead) in a narrative occurs when the primary sequence of events in a story is interrupted by the interjection of a scene representing an event expected, projected, or imagined to occur at a later time.
FlashGet FlashGet (Formerly known as JetCar) is a freeware download manager for Microsoft Windows. It was originally available in either paid or advert-supported versions, the latter of which included an Internet Explorer BHO and led to some labelling it as spyware.
Flashing (weatherproofing) Flashing is the weatherproofing shielding put around objects which protrude from the roof of a building (such as pipes and chimneys, or the edges of other roofs) to deflect water away from the seams. It is also used on the top edges of doors or windows where they protrude from a wall.
Flashing Light Flashing Light is a rhythmic light in which the total duration of the light in each period is clearly shorter than the total duration of the darkness and in which the flashes of light are all of equal duration. (Commonly used for a single-flashing light which exhibits only single flashes which are repeated at regular intervals.
Flashing sign A flashing sign is a sign that contains a sequential flashing light source where the period of time of illumination is equal to the period of non-illumination, and is used solely to attract attention in a non-informative way.
Flashing Swords ezine Flashing Swords is a quarterly ezine publishing short works of fiction in the Sword and Sorcery genre. Each issue carries from six to ten stories by both established and novice writers, as well as occasional reprints.
Flashlights Flashlights is the third record by the Atlanta-based independent rock band Y-O-U. The album was first made available via free download on the band's MySpace profile on New Year's Day, 2007, and is set for physical release later this month.
Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station The Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) is a project operated by the Mars Society in collaboration with NASA's Haughton-Mars Project, to conduct geological and microbiological exploration under conditions similar to those found on Mars, to develop field tactics based on those explorations, to test habitat design features, tools, and technologies, and to assess crew selection protocols. To this end, the Society constructed a research station on Canada's remote northerly Devon Island in the summer of 2000.
Flashpacking Flashpacking is the neologism used to refer to affluent backpacking and backpacker, in such that a flashpacker shares many of the characteristics of a backpacker in that they travel independently with flexibility for generally longer periods than is common place amongst tourists and to more exotic and far-flung destination. However, whereas low cost travel is associated with backpacking, flashpacking has an association of more disposable income while traveling.
FlashPix FlashPix is a bitmapped Computer graphics file format where the image is saved in more than one resolution. Though this makes it larger even than a TIFF file, when a request is sent for the file by a Web browser only the resolution required for the current screen resolution is sent to the browser; this therefore saves on bandwidth and download time.
Flashturbation Flashturbation (also incorrectly spelled Flashterbation) is a term used to refer to the inappropriate use of Macromedia Flash software on Internet sites resulting in the creation of unnecessary animation or other annoying features.
Flaschenteufel In the trick-taking card game Flaschenteufel (German for the Bottle Imp) players must follow the suit led, but if they are void in that suit they may play a card of another suit and this can still win the trick if its value is high enough. For this reason every card in the deck has a different number to prevent ties.
Flask operating system The Flask operating system architecture is a joint venture between the National Security Agency, the University of Utah, and the Secure Computing Corporation project designed to provide a framework for a more secure operating system. Development and implementation started with the Mach microkernel, and has since shifted its focus to the Linux operating system.
Flat In music, flat means "lower in pitch." More specifically, in music notation, flat means "lower in pitch by a semitone (half step)," and has an associated symbol (flat), which looks somewhat like a lowercase "b".
Flat engine A flat engine is an internal combustion engine with its pistons parallel to the ground. It can be an inline engine canted 90 degrees from straight up, and also can be a boxing engine sometimes referred to as a boxermotor, in which the cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft so that the motion of all the pistons is in a single plane.
Flat Earth The notion of a flat Earth refers to the idea that the inhabited surface of Earth is flat, rather than a curved spherical Earth. This article focuses on the views about the shape of the earth during the history of Europe, on historical evidence for and against the modern belief that people in Medieval Europe believed that the Earth was flat, on modern believers in a Flat Earth, and on the use of the idea of a Flat Earth in literature and popular culture.
Flat Earth Records Flat Earth Records is an independent punk record label based in Leeds, UK. Started in 1986, Flat Earth has released music which could largely be described as anarcho-punk or hardcore, although the size of the label's catalogue means that this is by no means a complete representation of the 'sound' of the label.
Flat Eric Built by Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Flat Eric was a low-tech, yellow puppet character from Levi's commercials for Sta-Prest One Crease Denim Clothing. He would ride with his friend Angel in California, wanted by the police.
Flat fee MLS Flat fee MLS (sometimes referred to as "flat rate mls" or "fixed fee mls") refers to the practice in the real estate industry of placing pertinent information about a property for sale into the local Multiple Listing Service (MLS) for a set fee or dollar amount as opposed to a commission based on the sales price of the property. The Listing contract between the real estate broker and the property owner typically requires the broker to enter the property into the MLS and calls for the seller to pay the broker a flat fee for the service.
Flat Fee A flat fee, also referred to as a flat rate or a linear rate, refers to a pricing structure that charges a single fixed fee for a service, regardless of usage. Rarely, it may refer to a rate that does not vary with usage or time of use.
Flat Flex Cable Flexible Flat Cable, or FFC, refers to any variety of electrical cable that is both flat and flexible. However, the term FFC usually refers to the extremely flat cable often found in high density electronic applications like laptops and cell phones.
Flat iron steak The Flat iron steak is a relatively new cut of steak from the shoulder of a cow. The steak was discovered by researchers at the University of Nebraska and the University of Florida during the course of a study of undervalued cuts of beef.
Flat Islands (Holme Bay) The Flat Islands or Flatøyholmane are a small chain of islands which extends 2.5 miles in a northeast-southwest direction, lying about 3 km north-west of Mawson Station and 2 miles southwest of Welch Island in the eastern part of Holme Bay.
Flat memory model In computer programming, the flat memory model is an approach to organizing memory address space. In this model, a computer application uses a single address space for both program code memory and data memory.
Flat organization Flat organization (also known as horizontal organization) refers to a organizational structure with few or no levels of intervening management between staff and managers. The idea is that well-trained workers will be more productive when they are more directly involved in the decision making process, rather than closely supervised by many layers of management.
Flat panel display Flat panel displays encompass a growing number of technologies enabling video displays that are lighter and much thinner than traditional television and video displays that use cathode ray tubes, and are usually less than 4 inches (100 mm) thick. These include:
Flat racing Flat racing is a term commonly used in the United Kingdom to denote a form of horse racing which is run over a predetermined distance and in which the horses are not required to jump over obstacles such as hurdles or fences as in National Hunt racing. This form of racing is a test of speed and stamina, and the skill of the jockey in determining when to hold the horse back or make it work harder.
Flat rated When an engine is Flat rated it means that an engine of high Horsepower rating, is constrained to a lower Horsepower rating. the engine output in this case will always remain the same but when atmospheric conditions such as high temperatures and high altitude (Hot and High), reduce the power output of the engine it has more headroom before it falls below the limited maximum output.
Flat tax A flat tax (short for flat rate tax or proportional tax) taxes all household income, and possibly corporate profits as well, at the same marginal rate. A flat tax usually refers to the taxation of incomes but can be applied to consumption.
Flat top guitar A flat top guitar is a type of guitar body model which has a flat top (as opposed to archtop). The term "flat top" is usually used to refer to acoustic guitarshowever, electric guitars such as the Fender Stratocaster] or [[Fender Telecaster can be described as "flat top".
Flat-4 A flat-4 is a four cylinder internal combustion engine where the cylinders are arranged in a flat configuration, also referred to as horizontally opposed. Flat fours can either be a 180-degree 'V' configuration in which opposing cylinders share a common crank journal, or one in which they have crank journals opposing each other, commonly known as a 'boxer' engine, due to the fact that opposing cylinders reach top dead center simultaneously, and appear to 'punch' one another.
Flat-field correction The goal of flat-field correction (or "flat-fielding") is to remove artifacts from 2-D images that are caused by variations in the pixel-to-pixel sensitivity of the detector and/or by distortions in the optical path. It is a standard calibration procedure in everything from pocket digital cameras to giant telescopes.
Flat-twin A flat-twin is a two cylinder internal combustion engine with the cylinders arranged in a flat configuration, often called a Boxer engine. This geometry is thought to be the best for minimizing vibrations in a two cylinder engine.
Flatbed digital printer Flatbed Digital printing is the reproduction of digital images on physical surfaces, such as common or photographic paper, film, cloth, plastic, etc. A Flatbed Digital Printer allows for a wide range of rigid or flat objects to be printed on, like wood or metal.
Flatbow A flatbow is a bow with non-recurved, flat, relatively wide limbs that are rectangular in cross-section. Because the limbs are relatively wide, flatbows will usually narrow and become deeper at the handle, with a rounded, non-bending, handle for easier grip.
Flatbush Avenue (Brooklyn) Flatbush Avenue is one of the major avenues in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Flatbush Avenue runs from the Manhattan Bridge southeastward to Jamaica Bay, where it becomes the Marine Parkway Bridge which connects Brooklyn to Far Rockaway in Queens.
Flatbush Avenue Line (surface) The Flatbush Avenue Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running along Flatbush Avenue between downtown Brooklyn and Marine Park. Originally a streetcar line, it is now the B41 bus, operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority out of the Flatbush Depot.
Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College (IRT Nostrand Avenue Line) Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College is the southern terminal station on the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues in Brooklyn, it is served by the train at all times and the during rush hours.
Flatbush Bus Depot The Flatbush Bus Depot is located in the neighborhood of Flatlands in the borough of Brooklyn. It is at Fillmore Avenue between East 49th Street & Utica Avenue and not far from the Kings Plaza Shopping Center, where most of its routes terminate.
Flatcar A flatcar (also flat car) is a piece of railroad rolling stock that consists of an open, flat deck on four or six wheels or a pair of trucks (US) or bogies (UK). The deck of the car can be wood or steel, and the sides of the deck can include pockets for stakes or tie-down points to secure loads.
Flatcat (band) Flatcat is belgium's biggest DIY punkrockband Founded by the Luyckx brothers in 1993 they have been rocking numerous countries ever since, including two successful Brasilian headlining tours reaching an average of 300-1500 people each concert.
Flatey in Breiðafjörður Flatey is the second largest island in Breiðafjörður, located in northwestern Iceland that consists of the main island and forty other smaller islands. It is believed that it was created during Ice age from a great glacier.
Flatground ollie The flatground ollie is a term given for the skateboard trick "ollie" to chronicle its origins as the standard, foundation trick for street skateboarding. The name "ollie" comes from Alan Gelfand, the inventor of the trick, whose nickname was Ollie.
Flathead catfish The flathead catfish, Pylodictis olivaris, also called the yellow cat, opelousas, mud cat and shovelhead cat, are large North American freshwater catfish. Ranging from the lower Great Lakes region to northern Mexico, they have been widely introduced and are an invasive species in some areas.
Flathead EP Flathead EP is an EP to be released only in the US by Scottish band The Fratellis. Although, it will be released physically in American music shops on January 23, 2007; it has been on the iTunes Music Store in America, since December 19, 2006.
Flathead River The Flathead River starts in southeast British Columbia, Canada, and flows south through northwest Montana to Flathead Lake before draining into the Clark Fork River. Its three forks, the North Fork, Middle Fork, and South Fork are designated National Wild and Scenic Rivers.
Flathead Tunnel The Flathead Tunnel is a 7-mile (11Â km) long single track railroad tunnel through the Rocky Mountains approximately 42 miles (67Â km) to the west of Whitefish, Montana. It is the second-longest tunnel in the United States.
Flatiron Building The Fuller Building or as it is better known, the Flatiron Building, is located in the borough of Manhattan, and was one of the tallest buildings in New York City upon its completion in 1902. The building was designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham with John Wellborn Root in the Beaux-Arts style on a triangular island block at 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue, and Broadway, facing Madison Square.
Flatiron Building (Atlanta) Atlanta has a Flatiron Building, completed five years before New York's in 1897, located at 74 Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, on the wedge-shaped block between Peachtree Street NE, Poplar Street NW, and Broad Street NW. Officially known as the English-American Building, it was designed by Burnham's Chicago school contemporary Bradford Gilbert.
Flatiron District, Manhattan The Flatiron District is a small area in the Midtown area of the New York City borough of Manhattan, and is named after the Flatiron Building. The Flatiron Building, while not nearly as impressive in height as its neighbors, is notable for its triangular shape.
Flatirons The Flatirons are rock formations near Boulder, Colorado. There are five large, numbered Flatirons ranging from north to south (First through Fifth, respectively) along the east slope of Green Mountain, and the term "The Flatirons" sometimes refers to these five alone.
Flatland Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a 1884 novella by Edwin Abbott Abbott, still popular among mathematics and computer science students, and considered useful reading for people studying topics such as the concept of other dimensions. As a piece of literature, Flatland is respected for its satire on the social hierarchy of Victorian society.
Flatland BMX Flatland is a BMX riding style that is performed on smooth flat surfaces, often with flatland specific frames, front & rear bolt on axle pegs, a hollow stem bolt for the front brake cable, and rear brake detangler or "gyro" to facilitate the bars being able to rotate endlessy without tangling the brake cables. Also invented specifically for flatland bmx riding was the rear hub mechanism called a "freecoaster", that allows the rear wheel to roll backwards without engaging the hub to make the pedals rotate around.
Flatlander (Niven) Flatlander is a term used in Larry Niven's Known Space series, initially to describe one who has never left Earth. In later stories, it is apparently expanded to refer to anyone who has never traveled off their native world (but not for one who was born in a colony or space station, and never left it).
Flatlander (story) Larry Niven's short story "Flatlander," published in 1967, is the third in the series of Known Space stories featuring crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer. The short story was originally published in Worlds of If, March 1967, and reprinted in Neutron Star, Larry Niven, New York: Ballantine, 1968, pp.
Flatline The term flatline is usually used to describe an electrical measurement that shows no activity and therefore when represented, shows a flat line instead of a moving one. It almost always refers to either a flatlined electrocardiogram, where the heart shows no electrical activity (the state is called asystole), or to a flat electroencephalogram, in which the brain shows no electrical activity (brain death).
Flatness problem The flatness problem is a cosmological fine-tuning problem within the Big Bang model. The problem is that the density of energy in the universe today is very close to the critical density, and extrapolating backwards in time, the energy density of the universe is increasingly closer to the critical density, without any reason why the energy density should be close to the critical density at the time of the Universe's creation.
Flatnose cat shark The flatnose cat shark, Apristurus acanutus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the northwest Pacific Ocean off Zhujiang, South China Sea, from the surface to 840 m. Its length is up to 51 cm.
Flatpicking Flatpicking is a technique for playing the steel-stringed acoustic guitar using a plectrum or flatpick. Although the term is used in other genres, it is probably best known as the lead guitar style in bluegrass music and old-time country music.
Flatpoint High School (Strangers with Candy) In the series Strangers With Candy, Jerri Blank attends Flatpoint High School in the fictional town of Flatpoint. Most, if not all, episodes focus around how poorly Jerri fits into society there, and how Flatpoint is a hyperbolic version of actual society, though a consistently changing one.
Flatrock Creek Flatrock Creek is a tributary of the Auglaize River, approximately 20 mi (32 km) long, in northeastern Indiana and northwestern Ohio in the United States. It drains a primarily rural farming area in the watershed of Lake Erie.
Flatrock River The Flatrock River is a tributary of the East Fork of the White River, about 90 mi (145 km) long, in east-central Indiana in the United States.Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry Via the White, Wabash and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 532 mi² (1,378 km²).
Flatscan Flatscan is a pejorative used by certain mutants in Marvel Comics to describe humans. It is used by mutant-supremacists such as the Brotherhood of Mutants and the Acolytes, who believe that mutants (Homo Superior) are the next stage of human evolution, and that existing Homo sapiens are "obsolete".
Flattery split (album) The Flattery Leads to Ruins/Eyes of the Betrayer split is a dual debut Recorse Records release from the two listed bands of the same name, the latter being their first recorded and released material on any medium. This article is an instance in the history of Eyes of the Betrayer.
Flatting Flatting is a slang term, used predominantly in New Zealand and Australia, used to describe a living arrangement whereby a house or apartment - a "flat" is let out to a group of people. The people who rent the flat are referred to as "flatmates".
Flattop A flattop is a type of very short hairstyle similar to the crew cut, with the exception that the hair on the top of the head is styled to deliberately stand up (typically no more than an inch or two) and is cut to be flat, resulting in a haircut that is square in shape. It is most often worn by men and boys, particularly those in the military and law enforcement in the United States.
Flattop (Dick Tracy villain) Flattop Jones is a fictional character created by Chester Gould for the Dick Tracy comic strip and is the most popular one in the strip's history. His nickname comes from his large head which is perfectly flat on the top like an aircraft carrier's flight deck.
Flatts Village, Bermuda Flatts Village is a small settlement in Bermuda, lying on the southern bank of Flatt's Inlet in Hamilton Parish, almost exactly between the territory's two incorporated municipalities, Hamilton and St. George's.
Flatwater Racing World Championships The Flatwater Racing World Championships are an international event in canoeing, organised by the International Canoe Federation. The World Championships take place every year, excluding years in which the Summer Olympic Games is contested.
Flatwoods monster The Flatwoods Monster, also known as the Braxton County Monster and the Phantom of Flatwoods, is an unidentified creature, reported to be alien in origin, which was sighted in the town of Flatwoods in Braxton County, West Virginia during the early 1950s.
Flatwoods Salamander The Flatwoods Salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum) has a very narrow distribution occupying seasonally wet, pine flatwoods and savannahs from southern South Carolina, southern Georgia, and northern Florida west to southern Alabama (Petranka 1998). Prior to European settlement it was found primarily in seasonally wet, longleaf pine (Pinus palustris)-wiregrass (Aristida stricta) communities.
Flatworm The flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Greek "platy"': flat; "helminth": worm) are a phylum of relatively simple soft-bodied invertebrate animals. With about 25,000 known species they are the largest phylum of acoelomates.
Flaubert's Parrot Flaubert's Parrot is a novel by Julian Barnes that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984. The novel recites amateur Flaubert expert Geoffrey Braithwaite's musings on his subject's life, and his own, as he tracks a stuffed parrot that once inspired the great author.
Flaunden Flaunden is a village in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom on the Bucks/Herts border. Old Flaunden was on the banks of the River Chess in Buckinghamshire but owing to contstant flooding was moved up the hill into Hertfordshire in the early 19th century.
Flaunt Flaunt is a monthly American fashion culture magazine founded by the current editor-in-chief, Luis Barajas, and creative director, Jim Turner, also the founders of Detour magazine. Long Nguyen, a third founder and style director, also was working on Detour for four years.
Flavas Flavas was a line of dolls made by Mattel in 2003 to compete with the Bratz line by MGA Entertainment. The dolls were dressed in hip hop fashions and appeared to be designed as a way for Mattel to tap into the 'urban' market.
Flavelle Medal The Flavelle Medal is an award of the Royal Society of Canada "for an outstanding contribution to biological science during the preceding ten years or for significant additions to a previous outstanding contribution to biological science". It is named in honour of Joseph Wesley Flavelle and is awarded bi-annually.
Flavia FLAVIA is a hot beverage system from Mars, Incorporated, that prepares single servings of coffee, tea, and hot chocolate drinks. Flavia launched its first brewer in 1984 and is the only company to offer Brew-by-Pack to the home and office.
Flavia Gemina Flavia Gemina is the fictional protagonist of the Roman Mysteries series and she appears throughout the whole series. She lives in the Roman port of Ostia in the year 79ad with her widowed father Marcus Flavius Geminus, who is a wealthy sea captain.
Flavian Aponso Goniamalimage John Anthony Flavian Aponso (born 28 October, 1952 in Colombo, Sri Lanka) was a Sri Lankan and Dutch cricketer, who played five One-day Internationals for The Netherlands during the 1996 World Cup.
Flavin Flavin is a tricyclic heteronuclear organic ring based on pteridine whose biochemical source is the vitamin riboflavin. The flavin moiety is often attached with an adenosine diphosphate to form flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), and in other circumstances, is found as flavin mononucleotide (or FMN), a phosphorylated form of riboflavin.
Flavin mononucleotide Flavin mononucleotide or FMN is derived from riboflavin (vitamin B2) and functions as cofactor of various oxidoreductases. During catalytic cycle, the reversible interconversion of oxidized (FMN), semiquinone (FMNH•) and reduced (FMNH2) forms occurs.
Flavio Flavio, re di Longobardi (or 'Flavio, King of the Lombards') is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Nicola Francesco Haym, after Matteo Noris's Il Flavio Cuniberto.
Flavio Biondo Flavio Biondo (Latin Flavius Blondus) (1392 – June 4, 1463) was an Italian Renaissance humanist historian. He was the historian who coined the term Middle Ages and is known as one of the first archaeologists.
Flavio Davino Flavio Germán Davino RodrĂguez (born August 15, 1974 in LeĂłn, Guanajuato) is a Mexican footballer who currently plays for Tecos. He is the son of the former Argentine footballer Jorge Davino, and the brother of Duilio Davino, who plays for Club America.
Flavius Cresconius Corippus Flavius Cresconius Corippus, Roman epic poet of the 6th century, who flourished under Byzantine Emperors Justinian I and Justin II. His major works are the epic poem Johannis and the panegyric In laudem Justini minoris.
Flash, Staffordshire Flash is a small village high in up in Staffordshire just a few miles away from the highest town in the country, Buxton in the Peak District National Park. The nearest village is Kettleshulme around 5 miles away.
Flashback In literature, film, television and other media, a flashback (also called analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened prior to the story's primary sequence of events or to fill in crucial backstory.
Flashback (media group) Flashback is the name of a controversial Swedish media group run by Jan Axelsson. It has a forum, with a large number of members, where everyone is allowed freedom of speech, therefore, the forum has been checked by the Swedish police on numerous occasions, due to its members' abundant discussions about drugs, pornography, bestiality and other controversial subjects.
Flashback (psychological phenomenon) A flashback is a psychological phenomenon in which an individual has a sudden, usually vivid, recollection of a past experience. The term is used particularly when the memory is recalled involuntarily, and/or when it is so intense that the person "relives" the experience, unable to fully recognize it as memory and not something that is happening in "real time".
Flashback arrestor A flashback arrestor is a device most commonly used in oxy-fuel welding and cutting to stop the flame from burning back up into the equipment and causing damage or explosions. The two main types are dry and wet.
Flashback Alternatives Flashback Alternatives is an Internet radio station that specializes in classic alternative music from the 80s. The Flashback Alternatives website offers a Real-Time request system, as well as a Tag-Board (Chat room) and Forums area.
Flashbackup Flashbackup is an utility originally made by Random to backup and restore Motorola phones. Later it got new abilities like flashing and creating Motorola flash files from backups, PDS editor and ability to apply patches.
Flashblock Flashblock is an extension for Flock, K-Meleon, Mozilla Application Suite, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Communicator, Netscape 8, and SeaMonkey that prevents Macromedia Flash "movies" from automatically playing when a web page is first loaded. Flashblock is primarily used to prevent banner ads that play audio or video from starting.
Flashbulb memory A flashbulb memory is a memory laid down in great detail during a personally significant event, often a shocking event of national or international importance. These memories are perceived to have a "photographic" quality.
FlashcardExchange FlashcardExchange is a website by Tuolumne Technology Group that allows users to create an account and create flashcards. The cards can be used on the website itself, or printed out to be used like traditional flashcards.
FlashCopy FlashCopy is an IBM feature supported on various IBM storage devices that allows you to make nearly instantaneous Point in Time copies of entire logical volumes or data sets. The HDS (Hitachi Data Systems) implementation providing similar function is branded as ShadowImage.
Flashes Per Minute Flashes Per Minute, or FPM, is simply the number of times a light, usually used on police cars or other emergency vehicles, blinks every minute. An example of this is the 120 FPM "Kojak style" teardrop light which can be seen at the right.
Flashflight A Flashflight is a flying disc designed to be used for night-time play similar to a Frisbee, for recreational catches between two or more individuals. The Flashflight differs from a traditional Frisbee, however, in that it has a completely enclosed single ultra-high brightness LED and fiber optics designed to distribute light from the center of the disc to the outer rim.
Flashforward A flashforward (or prolepsis, also sometimes known as flash-forward or flash-ahead) in a narrative occurs when the primary sequence of events in a story is interrupted by the interjection of a scene representing an event expected, projected, or imagined to occur at a later time.
FlashGet FlashGet (Formerly known as JetCar) is a freeware download manager for Microsoft Windows. It was originally available in either paid or advert-supported versions, the latter of which included an Internet Explorer BHO and led to some labelling it as spyware.
Flashing (weatherproofing) Flashing is the weatherproofing shielding put around objects which protrude from the roof of a building (such as pipes and chimneys, or the edges of other roofs) to deflect water away from the seams. It is also used on the top edges of doors or windows where they protrude from a wall.
Flashing Light Flashing Light is a rhythmic light in which the total duration of the light in each period is clearly shorter than the total duration of the darkness and in which the flashes of light are all of equal duration. (Commonly used for a single-flashing light which exhibits only single flashes which are repeated at regular intervals.
Flashing sign A flashing sign is a sign that contains a sequential flashing light source where the period of time of illumination is equal to the period of non-illumination, and is used solely to attract attention in a non-informative way.
Flashing Swords ezine Flashing Swords is a quarterly ezine publishing short works of fiction in the Sword and Sorcery genre. Each issue carries from six to ten stories by both established and novice writers, as well as occasional reprints.
Flashlights Flashlights is the third record by the Atlanta-based independent rock band Y-O-U. The album was first made available via free download on the band's MySpace profile on New Year's Day, 2007, and is set for physical release later this month.
Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station The Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) is a project operated by the Mars Society in collaboration with NASA's Haughton-Mars Project, to conduct geological and microbiological exploration under conditions similar to those found on Mars, to develop field tactics based on those explorations, to test habitat design features, tools, and technologies, and to assess crew selection protocols. To this end, the Society constructed a research station on Canada's remote northerly Devon Island in the summer of 2000.
Flashpacking Flashpacking is the neologism used to refer to affluent backpacking and backpacker, in such that a flashpacker shares many of the characteristics of a backpacker in that they travel independently with flexibility for generally longer periods than is common place amongst tourists and to more exotic and far-flung destination. However, whereas low cost travel is associated with backpacking, flashpacking has an association of more disposable income while traveling.
FlashPix FlashPix is a bitmapped Computer graphics file format where the image is saved in more than one resolution. Though this makes it larger even than a TIFF file, when a request is sent for the file by a Web browser only the resolution required for the current screen resolution is sent to the browser; this therefore saves on bandwidth and download time.
Flashturbation Flashturbation (also incorrectly spelled Flashterbation) is a term used to refer to the inappropriate use of Macromedia Flash software on Internet sites resulting in the creation of unnecessary animation or other annoying features.
Flaschenteufel In the trick-taking card game Flaschenteufel (German for the Bottle Imp) players must follow the suit led, but if they are void in that suit they may play a card of another suit and this can still win the trick if its value is high enough. For this reason every card in the deck has a different number to prevent ties.
Flask operating system The Flask operating system architecture is a joint venture between the National Security Agency, the University of Utah, and the Secure Computing Corporation project designed to provide a framework for a more secure operating system. Development and implementation started with the Mach microkernel, and has since shifted its focus to the Linux operating system.
Flat In music, flat means "lower in pitch." More specifically, in music notation, flat means "lower in pitch by a semitone (half step)," and has an associated symbol (flat), which looks somewhat like a lowercase "b".
Flat engine A flat engine is an internal combustion engine with its pistons parallel to the ground. It can be an inline engine canted 90 degrees from straight up, and also can be a boxing engine sometimes referred to as a boxermotor, in which the cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft so that the motion of all the pistons is in a single plane.
Flat Earth The notion of a flat Earth refers to the idea that the inhabited surface of Earth is flat, rather than a curved spherical Earth. This article focuses on the views about the shape of the earth during the history of Europe, on historical evidence for and against the modern belief that people in Medieval Europe believed that the Earth was flat, on modern believers in a Flat Earth, and on the use of the idea of a Flat Earth in literature and popular culture.
Flat Earth Records Flat Earth Records is an independent punk record label based in Leeds, UK. Started in 1986, Flat Earth has released music which could largely be described as anarcho-punk or hardcore, although the size of the label's catalogue means that this is by no means a complete representation of the 'sound' of the label.
Flat Eric Built by Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Flat Eric was a low-tech, yellow puppet character from Levi's commercials for Sta-Prest One Crease Denim Clothing. He would ride with his friend Angel in California, wanted by the police.
Flat fee MLS Flat fee MLS (sometimes referred to as "flat rate mls" or "fixed fee mls") refers to the practice in the real estate industry of placing pertinent information about a property for sale into the local Multiple Listing Service (MLS) for a set fee or dollar amount as opposed to a commission based on the sales price of the property. The Listing contract between the real estate broker and the property owner typically requires the broker to enter the property into the MLS and calls for the seller to pay the broker a flat fee for the service.
Flat Fee A flat fee, also referred to as a flat rate or a linear rate, refers to a pricing structure that charges a single fixed fee for a service, regardless of usage. Rarely, it may refer to a rate that does not vary with usage or time of use.
Flat Flex Cable Flexible Flat Cable, or FFC, refers to any variety of electrical cable that is both flat and flexible. However, the term FFC usually refers to the extremely flat cable often found in high density electronic applications like laptops and cell phones.
Flat iron steak The Flat iron steak is a relatively new cut of steak from the shoulder of a cow. The steak was discovered by researchers at the University of Nebraska and the University of Florida during the course of a study of undervalued cuts of beef.
Flat Islands (Holme Bay) The Flat Islands or Flatøyholmane are a small chain of islands which extends 2.5 miles in a northeast-southwest direction, lying about 3 km north-west of Mawson Station and 2 miles southwest of Welch Island in the eastern part of Holme Bay.
Flat memory model In computer programming, the flat memory model is an approach to organizing memory address space. In this model, a computer application uses a single address space for both program code memory and data memory.
Flat organization Flat organization (also known as horizontal organization) refers to a organizational structure with few or no levels of intervening management between staff and managers. The idea is that well-trained workers will be more productive when they are more directly involved in the decision making process, rather than closely supervised by many layers of management.
Flat panel display Flat panel displays encompass a growing number of technologies enabling video displays that are lighter and much thinner than traditional television and video displays that use cathode ray tubes, and are usually less than 4 inches (100 mm) thick. These include:
Flat racing Flat racing is a term commonly used in the United Kingdom to denote a form of horse racing which is run over a predetermined distance and in which the horses are not required to jump over obstacles such as hurdles or fences as in National Hunt racing. This form of racing is a test of speed and stamina, and the skill of the jockey in determining when to hold the horse back or make it work harder.
Flat rated When an engine is Flat rated it means that an engine of high Horsepower rating, is constrained to a lower Horsepower rating. the engine output in this case will always remain the same but when atmospheric conditions such as high temperatures and high altitude (Hot and High), reduce the power output of the engine it has more headroom before it falls below the limited maximum output.
Flat tax A flat tax (short for flat rate tax or proportional tax) taxes all household income, and possibly corporate profits as well, at the same marginal rate. A flat tax usually refers to the taxation of incomes but can be applied to consumption.
Flat top guitar A flat top guitar is a type of guitar body model which has a flat top (as opposed to archtop). The term "flat top" is usually used to refer to acoustic guitarshowever, electric guitars such as the Fender Stratocaster] or [[Fender Telecaster can be described as "flat top".
Flat-4 A flat-4 is a four cylinder internal combustion engine where the cylinders are arranged in a flat configuration, also referred to as horizontally opposed. Flat fours can either be a 180-degree 'V' configuration in which opposing cylinders share a common crank journal, or one in which they have crank journals opposing each other, commonly known as a 'boxer' engine, due to the fact that opposing cylinders reach top dead center simultaneously, and appear to 'punch' one another.
Flat-field correction The goal of flat-field correction (or "flat-fielding") is to remove artifacts from 2-D images that are caused by variations in the pixel-to-pixel sensitivity of the detector and/or by distortions in the optical path. It is a standard calibration procedure in everything from pocket digital cameras to giant telescopes.
Flat-twin A flat-twin is a two cylinder internal combustion engine with the cylinders arranged in a flat configuration, often called a Boxer engine. This geometry is thought to be the best for minimizing vibrations in a two cylinder engine.
Flatbed digital printer Flatbed Digital printing is the reproduction of digital images on physical surfaces, such as common or photographic paper, film, cloth, plastic, etc. A Flatbed Digital Printer allows for a wide range of rigid or flat objects to be printed on, like wood or metal.
Flatbow A flatbow is a bow with non-recurved, flat, relatively wide limbs that are rectangular in cross-section. Because the limbs are relatively wide, flatbows will usually narrow and become deeper at the handle, with a rounded, non-bending, handle for easier grip.
Flatbush Avenue (Brooklyn) Flatbush Avenue is one of the major avenues in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Flatbush Avenue runs from the Manhattan Bridge southeastward to Jamaica Bay, where it becomes the Marine Parkway Bridge which connects Brooklyn to Far Rockaway in Queens.
Flatbush Avenue Line (surface) The Flatbush Avenue Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running along Flatbush Avenue between downtown Brooklyn and Marine Park. Originally a streetcar line, it is now the B41 bus, operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority out of the Flatbush Depot.
Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College (IRT Nostrand Avenue Line) Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College is the southern terminal station on the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues in Brooklyn, it is served by the train at all times and the during rush hours.
Flatbush Bus Depot The Flatbush Bus Depot is located in the neighborhood of Flatlands in the borough of Brooklyn. It is at Fillmore Avenue between East 49th Street & Utica Avenue and not far from the Kings Plaza Shopping Center, where most of its routes terminate.
Flatcar A flatcar (also flat car) is a piece of railroad rolling stock that consists of an open, flat deck on four or six wheels or a pair of trucks (US) or bogies (UK). The deck of the car can be wood or steel, and the sides of the deck can include pockets for stakes or tie-down points to secure loads.
Flatcat (band) Flatcat is belgium's biggest DIY punkrockband Founded by the Luyckx brothers in 1993 they have been rocking numerous countries ever since, including two successful Brasilian headlining tours reaching an average of 300-1500 people each concert.
Flatey in Breiðafjörður Flatey is the second largest island in Breiðafjörður, located in northwestern Iceland that consists of the main island and forty other smaller islands. It is believed that it was created during Ice age from a great glacier.
Flatground ollie The flatground ollie is a term given for the skateboard trick "ollie" to chronicle its origins as the standard, foundation trick for street skateboarding. The name "ollie" comes from Alan Gelfand, the inventor of the trick, whose nickname was Ollie.
Flathead catfish The flathead catfish, Pylodictis olivaris, also called the yellow cat, opelousas, mud cat and shovelhead cat, are large North American freshwater catfish. Ranging from the lower Great Lakes region to northern Mexico, they have been widely introduced and are an invasive species in some areas.
Flathead EP Flathead EP is an EP to be released only in the US by Scottish band The Fratellis. Although, it will be released physically in American music shops on January 23, 2007; it has been on the iTunes Music Store in America, since December 19, 2006.
Flathead River The Flathead River starts in southeast British Columbia, Canada, and flows south through northwest Montana to Flathead Lake before draining into the Clark Fork River. Its three forks, the North Fork, Middle Fork, and South Fork are designated National Wild and Scenic Rivers.
Flathead Tunnel The Flathead Tunnel is a 7-mile (11Â km) long single track railroad tunnel through the Rocky Mountains approximately 42 miles (67Â km) to the west of Whitefish, Montana. It is the second-longest tunnel in the United States.
Flatiron Building The Fuller Building or as it is better known, the Flatiron Building, is located in the borough of Manhattan, and was one of the tallest buildings in New York City upon its completion in 1902. The building was designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham with John Wellborn Root in the Beaux-Arts style on a triangular island block at 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue, and Broadway, facing Madison Square.
Flatiron Building (Atlanta) Atlanta has a Flatiron Building, completed five years before New York's in 1897, located at 74 Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, on the wedge-shaped block between Peachtree Street NE, Poplar Street NW, and Broad Street NW. Officially known as the English-American Building, it was designed by Burnham's Chicago school contemporary Bradford Gilbert.
Flatiron District, Manhattan The Flatiron District is a small area in the Midtown area of the New York City borough of Manhattan, and is named after the Flatiron Building. The Flatiron Building, while not nearly as impressive in height as its neighbors, is notable for its triangular shape.
Flatirons The Flatirons are rock formations near Boulder, Colorado. There are five large, numbered Flatirons ranging from north to south (First through Fifth, respectively) along the east slope of Green Mountain, and the term "The Flatirons" sometimes refers to these five alone.
Flatland Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a 1884 novella by Edwin Abbott Abbott, still popular among mathematics and computer science students, and considered useful reading for people studying topics such as the concept of other dimensions. As a piece of literature, Flatland is respected for its satire on the social hierarchy of Victorian society.
Flatland BMX Flatland is a BMX riding style that is performed on smooth flat surfaces, often with flatland specific frames, front & rear bolt on axle pegs, a hollow stem bolt for the front brake cable, and rear brake detangler or "gyro" to facilitate the bars being able to rotate endlessy without tangling the brake cables. Also invented specifically for flatland bmx riding was the rear hub mechanism called a "freecoaster", that allows the rear wheel to roll backwards without engaging the hub to make the pedals rotate around.
Flatlander (Niven) Flatlander is a term used in Larry Niven's Known Space series, initially to describe one who has never left Earth. In later stories, it is apparently expanded to refer to anyone who has never traveled off their native world (but not for one who was born in a colony or space station, and never left it).
Flatlander (story) Larry Niven's short story "Flatlander," published in 1967, is the third in the series of Known Space stories featuring crashlander Beowulf Shaeffer. The short story was originally published in Worlds of If, March 1967, and reprinted in Neutron Star, Larry Niven, New York: Ballantine, 1968, pp.
Flatline The term flatline is usually used to describe an electrical measurement that shows no activity and therefore when represented, shows a flat line instead of a moving one. It almost always refers to either a flatlined electrocardiogram, where the heart shows no electrical activity (the state is called asystole), or to a flat electroencephalogram, in which the brain shows no electrical activity (brain death).
Flatness problem The flatness problem is a cosmological fine-tuning problem within the Big Bang model. The problem is that the density of energy in the universe today is very close to the critical density, and extrapolating backwards in time, the energy density of the universe is increasingly closer to the critical density, without any reason why the energy density should be close to the critical density at the time of the Universe's creation.
Flatnose cat shark The flatnose cat shark, Apristurus acanutus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the northwest Pacific Ocean off Zhujiang, South China Sea, from the surface to 840 m. Its length is up to 51 cm.
Flatpicking Flatpicking is a technique for playing the steel-stringed acoustic guitar using a plectrum or flatpick. Although the term is used in other genres, it is probably best known as the lead guitar style in bluegrass music and old-time country music.
Flatpoint High School (Strangers with Candy) In the series Strangers With Candy, Jerri Blank attends Flatpoint High School in the fictional town of Flatpoint. Most, if not all, episodes focus around how poorly Jerri fits into society there, and how Flatpoint is a hyperbolic version of actual society, though a consistently changing one.
Flatrock Creek Flatrock Creek is a tributary of the Auglaize River, approximately 20 mi (32 km) long, in northeastern Indiana and northwestern Ohio in the United States. It drains a primarily rural farming area in the watershed of Lake Erie.
Flatrock River The Flatrock River is a tributary of the East Fork of the White River, about 90 mi (145 km) long, in east-central Indiana in the United States.Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry Via the White, Wabash and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 532 mi² (1,378 km²).
Flatscan Flatscan is a pejorative used by certain mutants in Marvel Comics to describe humans. It is used by mutant-supremacists such as the Brotherhood of Mutants and the Acolytes, who believe that mutants (Homo Superior) are the next stage of human evolution, and that existing Homo sapiens are "obsolete".
Flattery split (album) The Flattery Leads to Ruins/Eyes of the Betrayer split is a dual debut Recorse Records release from the two listed bands of the same name, the latter being their first recorded and released material on any medium. This article is an instance in the history of Eyes of the Betrayer.
Flatting Flatting is a slang term, used predominantly in New Zealand and Australia, used to describe a living arrangement whereby a house or apartment - a "flat" is let out to a group of people. The people who rent the flat are referred to as "flatmates".
Flattop A flattop is a type of very short hairstyle similar to the crew cut, with the exception that the hair on the top of the head is styled to deliberately stand up (typically no more than an inch or two) and is cut to be flat, resulting in a haircut that is square in shape. It is most often worn by men and boys, particularly those in the military and law enforcement in the United States.
Flattop (Dick Tracy villain) Flattop Jones is a fictional character created by Chester Gould for the Dick Tracy comic strip and is the most popular one in the strip's history. His nickname comes from his large head which is perfectly flat on the top like an aircraft carrier's flight deck.
Flatts Village, Bermuda Flatts Village is a small settlement in Bermuda, lying on the southern bank of Flatt's Inlet in Hamilton Parish, almost exactly between the territory's two incorporated municipalities, Hamilton and St. George's.
Flatwater Racing World Championships The Flatwater Racing World Championships are an international event in canoeing, organised by the International Canoe Federation. The World Championships take place every year, excluding years in which the Summer Olympic Games is contested.
Flatwoods monster The Flatwoods Monster, also known as the Braxton County Monster and the Phantom of Flatwoods, is an unidentified creature, reported to be alien in origin, which was sighted in the town of Flatwoods in Braxton County, West Virginia during the early 1950s.
Flatwoods Salamander The Flatwoods Salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum) has a very narrow distribution occupying seasonally wet, pine flatwoods and savannahs from southern South Carolina, southern Georgia, and northern Florida west to southern Alabama (Petranka 1998). Prior to European settlement it was found primarily in seasonally wet, longleaf pine (Pinus palustris)-wiregrass (Aristida stricta) communities.
Flatworm The flatworms (Platyhelminthes, Greek "platy"': flat; "helminth": worm) are a phylum of relatively simple soft-bodied invertebrate animals. With about 25,000 known species they are the largest phylum of acoelomates.
Flaubert's Parrot Flaubert's Parrot is a novel by Julian Barnes that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984. The novel recites amateur Flaubert expert Geoffrey Braithwaite's musings on his subject's life, and his own, as he tracks a stuffed parrot that once inspired the great author.
Flaunden Flaunden is a village in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom on the Bucks/Herts border. Old Flaunden was on the banks of the River Chess in Buckinghamshire but owing to contstant flooding was moved up the hill into Hertfordshire in the early 19th century.
Flaunt Flaunt is a monthly American fashion culture magazine founded by the current editor-in-chief, Luis Barajas, and creative director, Jim Turner, also the founders of Detour magazine. Long Nguyen, a third founder and style director, also was working on Detour for four years.
Flavas Flavas was a line of dolls made by Mattel in 2003 to compete with the Bratz line by MGA Entertainment. The dolls were dressed in hip hop fashions and appeared to be designed as a way for Mattel to tap into the 'urban' market.
Flavelle Medal The Flavelle Medal is an award of the Royal Society of Canada "for an outstanding contribution to biological science during the preceding ten years or for significant additions to a previous outstanding contribution to biological science". It is named in honour of Joseph Wesley Flavelle and is awarded bi-annually.
Flavia FLAVIA is a hot beverage system from Mars, Incorporated, that prepares single servings of coffee, tea, and hot chocolate drinks. Flavia launched its first brewer in 1984 and is the only company to offer Brew-by-Pack to the home and office.
Flavia Gemina Flavia Gemina is the fictional protagonist of the Roman Mysteries series and she appears throughout the whole series. She lives in the Roman port of Ostia in the year 79ad with her widowed father Marcus Flavius Geminus, who is a wealthy sea captain.
Flavian Aponso Goniamalimage John Anthony Flavian Aponso (born 28 October, 1952 in Colombo, Sri Lanka) was a Sri Lankan and Dutch cricketer, who played five One-day Internationals for The Netherlands during the 1996 World Cup.
Flavin Flavin is a tricyclic heteronuclear organic ring based on pteridine whose biochemical source is the vitamin riboflavin. The flavin moiety is often attached with an adenosine diphosphate to form flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD), and in other circumstances, is found as flavin mononucleotide (or FMN), a phosphorylated form of riboflavin.
Flavin mononucleotide Flavin mononucleotide or FMN is derived from riboflavin (vitamin B2) and functions as cofactor of various oxidoreductases. During catalytic cycle, the reversible interconversion of oxidized (FMN), semiquinone (FMNH•) and reduced (FMNH2) forms occurs.
Flavio Flavio, re di Longobardi (or 'Flavio, King of the Lombards') is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Nicola Francesco Haym, after Matteo Noris's Il Flavio Cuniberto.
Flavio Biondo Flavio Biondo (Latin Flavius Blondus) (1392 – June 4, 1463) was an Italian Renaissance humanist historian. He was the historian who coined the term Middle Ages and is known as one of the first archaeologists.
Flavio Davino Flavio Germán Davino RodrĂguez (born August 15, 1974 in LeĂłn, Guanajuato) is a Mexican footballer who currently plays for Tecos. He is the son of the former Argentine footballer Jorge Davino, and the brother of Duilio Davino, who plays for Club America.
Flavius Cresconius Corippus Flavius Cresconius Corippus, Roman epic poet of the 6th century, who flourished under Byzantine Emperors Justinian I and Justin II. His major works are the epic poem Johannis and the panegyric In laudem Justini minoris.
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