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Flemington Road, Melbourne Flemington Road is a major thoroughfare in the inner suburbs of North Melbourne and Parkville in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It runs from the north end of Elizabeth Street to the south end of Mount Alexander Road, Flemington, and provides a main connection between the Melbourne CBD and the northern arm of the CityLink tollway.
Flemington-Raritan Regional School District The Flemington-Raritan Regional School District is a comprehensive regional public school district in eastern Hunterdon County, New Jersey, which serves an enrollment of over 3,500 children in kindergarten through eighth from the neighboring communities of Flemington Borough (400 students) and Raritan Township 3,150 students).
Flemington, South Lanarkshire Flemington was a small mining community on the outskirts of Uddingston. It existed from the early 1900's until the late 1930's and was located next to the mainline railway line, just off the road that links Blantyre to Uddingston, near Bothwell Castle.
Flemish (linguistics) The term Flemish, besides an adjective referring to an attribute of any circumscription of an area named Flanders or its people and culture, can be a linguistic one, referring to the speech of the Flemings, inhabitants of Flanders, though Algemeen Nederlands (Common Dutch) is the name of their official standard language. 'Flemish' is used to describe certain non-standardized dialects spoken in Flanders, and sometimes to Dutch as spoken in Belgium.
Flemish Brabant Flemish Brabant (Dutch: Vlaams Brabant, French: Brabant flamand) is a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on (clockwise from the North) the Belgian provinces of Antwerp, Limburg, Liège, Walloon Brabant, Hainaut and East Flanders.
Flemish Community Commission The Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie (or VGC, or, in English, the Flemish Community Commission) is the local representative of the Flemish authorities in the Brussels-Capital Region, one of the three regions of Belgium. The VGC depends on the Flemish Parliament, and its council is made up by the members of the Dutch linguistic group of the Brussels Parliament, whereas its executive is made up of the two Flemish ministers and the Flemish secretary of the Brussels-Capital Government.
Flemish Energy Agency Flemish Energy Agency (Dutch: Vlaams Energieagentschap; VEA) is a government agency of the Flemish Region under the Flemish Ministry of Environment, Nature and Energy, tasked with the preparation and execution of Flemish energy policy.
Flemish horse A flemish horse is a footrope on a square rigged sailing ship that is found at the extreme outer end of the yard. The main footrope runs along the whole length of the yard, but because of its length the angle upwards to where it is attached is quite shallow, and thus it is too high to stand on for some distance inwards.
Flemish Heraldic Council The Flemish Heraldic Council or Vlaamse Heraldische Raad is the part of the Monuments and Sites Division of the Flemish government responsible for granting coats of arms and flags. Established on April 11, 1984, it is the successor to the Subcommissie Heraldiek (Subcommittee for Heraldry), established in 1978.
Flemish Innovation Center for Graphic Communication The Flemish Innovation Center for Graphic Communication (VIGC) is a Flemish non-profit organization, founded in 1997 and since 2000 located at the Campus Blairon in Turnhout. The VIGC is the knowledge center for the Flemish graphical arts industry.
Flemish literature Flemish literature is literature from Flanders, the northern part of Belgium. The older Flemish writers were contributors to Dutch literature in the broad sense of nationality; after the separation of Belgium, however, from the Netherlands, when Belgium became independent in 1830, there was a great revival of Flemish literature that distinguished from the Netherlands in language and culture.
Flemish movement The Flemish movement (Dutch: Vlaamse Beweging) is a popular term used to describe the political movement for greater autonomy of the Belgian region of Flanders, for protection of the Dutch language in Flanders, and for protection of the Flemish culture.
Flemish painting Flemish painting flourished from the early 15th century until the 17th century. Flanders delivered the leading painters in Northern Europe and attracted many promising young painters from neighbouring countries.
Flemish people The term Flemings () is currently mostly used to refer to the ethnic group native to Flanders (the northern half of Belgium, historically part of the Southern Netherlands), which in total numbers about 6 million people in Belgium (the majority of all Belgians) . The term also designates, not only the native inhabitants of that Flemish region, but also those ethnic Flemings of French Flanders (Frans-Vlaanderen)(mainly in the département of Nord of present-day France), the southern part of the Dutch province of Zeeland known as Zeeuws-Vlaanderen and other Flemish communities around the world.
Flemish Parliament The Flemish Parliament (Dutch: Vlaams Parlement, and formerly called Flemish Council or Vlaamse Raad) constitutes the legislative power in Flanders, for matters which fall within the competence of Flanders, both as a geographic region and a cultural and linguistic community of Belgium. It approves decrees, which are Flemish laws applicable exclusively to the Flemish population, it appoints and supervises the Flemish Government, and approves the Flemish budget.
Flemish Quality Management Center The Flemish Quality Management Center (VCK) is a Flemish non-profit organization, which was founded on 28 September, 1985. The organization wants to inspire and support Flemish companies to work and develop their capabilities in a competitive and efficient way, and isnpired by the principles of total quality management (TQM).
Flemish Sign Language Flemish Sign Language (Vlaamse Gebarentaal or VGT, previously known as Belgian Sign Language) is the language used by signers in Flanders, which is the northern part of Belgium, a country in Western Europe. The Flemish Deaf community is estimated to include approximately 6,000 sign language users (Loots et al.
Flemming Hansen Flemming Hansen (born August 9, 1939) is a Danish politician representing the Conservative People's Party. He has been a member of parliament (Folketinget) since 1984 and has been the Minister of Traffic since November 27, 2001, Minister of Nordic Coorporation since June 18, 2002 and Minister of Energy since February 18, 2005.
Flemming Christensen Flemming Christensen (born 10 April 1958) is a Danish former football (soccer) player and current manager of Danish 1st Division club Næstved BK. In his active career, Christensen played for Danish clubs AB and Lyngby BK, as well as French club AS Saint-Etienne and FC Aarau from Switzerland.
Flemming Povlsen Flemming Søgaard Povlsen (born December 3, 1966) is a Danish former professional football (soccer) player who most notably played as a striker for Borussia Dortmund in Germany, and was a constant part of the Denmark national football team from his debut in 1987 until he retired. He scored 21 goals in his 62 international appearances for Denmark, and played at the 1988 European Championship (Euro 1988) as well as Euro 1992, a tournament which Denmark won.
Flemming Rasmussen Flemming 'Razz' Rasmussen (born in Denmark in 1958) is a engineer, producer and owner and founder of Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was the engineer and producer of heavy metal act Metallica's albums Ride The Lightning (1984), Master Of Puppets (1986) and ...
Flemming Rose Flemming Rose (born March 11 1958) is a Danish journalist, author and the current cultural editor at the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. He was principally responsible for the publishing of the cartoons that initiated the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy.
Flen flyys Flen flyys is a poem, written in about 1475, that is chiefly famous for containing the first known written usage in English of the vulgar verb "fuck". In fact the usage was "fuccant", a hybrid of an English root with a Latin conjugation, and was disguised in the text by a simple code, in which each letter was replaced with the next letter in the alphabet (so that fuccant is written as gxddbov).
Flensburg government The Flensburg government was the short-lived administration that attempted to rule Germany in May 1945 following the suicides of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels and the Fall of Berlin. Led by Hitler's designated successor, Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, the administration was referred to as the Flensburg government, as Flensburg, near the border with Denmark, was the headquarters of Dönitz by this time, and because the area the government controlled was limited to the vicinity of the town by the encroaching Allied armies.
Flensburg radar detector The FuG 227 Flensburg was a German passive radar receiver developed by Siemens AG and introduced into service in Spring 1944. It used wing-mounted dipole antennae and was sensitive to frequencies of 170-220 MHz.
Flensburg-Engelsby transmitter Flensburg-Engelsby transmitter is a facility of NDR for mediumwave, FM- and TV-broadcasting at Flensburg, Germany. It uses as antenna mast a 215 metre tall grounded guyed mast, built of lattice steel, on which a cage antenna is mounted for mediumwave broadcasting.
Flesh-fly Flies of the Diptera family Sarcophagidae (from the Greek sarco- = corpse, phage = eating; the same roots as the word "sarcophagus"), are commonly known as flesh flies. Most flesh flies breed in carrion, dung, or decaying material, but a few species lay their eggs in the open wounds of mammals; hence their common name.
Flesh-n-Bone Flesh-n-Bone is the stage name of Stanley Vernell Howse, an American rapper in the rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio on June 10, 1974 (see is the older brother of Layzie Bone] and the cousin of [[Wish Bone.
Flesherin Flesherin (Gaelic Fleisirin) is a small village near Portnaguran, Point, Outer Hebrides on the Isle of Lewis. The village has a population of around 100, and is home to the famous accordianists Tommy Darky and John 'Tonkan' Macdonald.
Fleshfish The fleshfish, Dermatopsis macrodon, is a cusk eel of the genus Dermatopsis, found in southern Australia and around New Zealand at shallow depths, in rock pools and reef areas of broken rock. Their length is between 7 and 10 cm.
Fleshies Fleshies are a band from Oakland, California signed to Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles. They are known for their outlandish stage presence, their left-wing politics and their non-stop world touring schedule.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test The Flesch/Flesch–Kincaid Readability Tests are readability tests designed to indicate how difficult a reading passage is to understand. There are two tests, the Flesch Reading Ease, and the Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level.
Flessas Family The Flessas family has existed in Greece's Peloponnese since the 1600s from the time in which Venetians ruled the area. The name "Flessas" comes from the Bavarian word "Flosse" which means "raft".
Fletch (archery) In archery, a fletch refers to a vane at the rear end of the arrow, used to stabilize the arrow through air resistance in flight. The group of fletches are collectively known as the fletching of the arrow or dart.
Fletch (film) Fletch is a 1985 comedy film about a wisecracking investigative newspaper reporter, Irwin Fletcher (Chevy Chase, at the height of his popularity), who writes under the name of Jane Doe. The film was based on the popular Gregory Mcdonald novels and the screenplay was written by Andrew Bergman.
Fletch Won Fletch Won is the eighth book in the Fletch series of mystery/comedy novels written by Gregory Mcdonald, and was published in 1985. The story predates the first seven books in the series, and follows the early days of the title character's journalism career.
Fletcher Allen Health Care Fletcher Allen Health Care is a tertiary referral hospital for Vermont and northern New York State, a Level I Trauma Center, and a teaching hospital in alliance with the University of Vermont College of Medicine.
Fletcher Bowron Fletcher Bowron (August 13, 1887 – September 11, 1968) was a four-term reform mayor of Los Angeles, California from September 26, 1938 until June 30, 1953. Until Thomas Bradley passed his length of service during the 1980s, Bowron held the distinction of having the longest tenure in that position in city history.
Fletcher class destroyer The United States Navy commissioned 175 Fletcher-class destroyers between 1942 and 1944. They were built by shipyards across the United States for service in World War II, and some served during the Korean War and into the Vietnam War.
Fletcher Foundation The Fletcher Foundation was created with a $50 million endowment in 2004 by New York financier and philanthropist Alphonse Fletcher, Jr.A 1987 graduate of Harvard University], Fletcher worked in investment banking and in 1993 founded Fletcher Asset Management.
Fletcher Challenge Fletcher Challenge is a now defunct multinational corporation from New Zealand. It was formerly the largest company in New Zealand, with holdings in construction, forestry, building, and energy, initially within New Zealand and then internationally.
Fletcher Christian Fletcher Christian (September 25 1764 – October 3 1793) was a Master's Mate on board the Bounty during William Bligh's fateful voyage to Tahiti for breadfruit plants. It was Christian who seized command of the Bounty from Bligh on April 28, 1789.
Fletcher's Frog Fletcher's Frog or Sandpaper Frog (Lechriodus fletcheri) is a species of ground frog native to eastern Australia from South-east QLD to Ourimbah, NSW. It inhabits rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest of the coast and ranges.
Fletcher–Munson curves The Fletcher–Munson curves are one of many sets of equal-loudness contours for the human ear, determined experimentally by Harvey Fletcher and W A Munson, and reported in a paper entitled "Loudness, its definition, measurement and calculation" in J.Acoust.
Fletching Fletching is the ancient art of aerodynamically stabilizing arrows from materials such as feathers or modern plastics. The English-language surname "Fletcher" derives from this term, meaning "one who fletches.
Flettner ship A Flettner ship is a ship designed according to the ideas of German engineer Anton Flettner. The underlying principle is the Magnus effect, where a spinning body in a moving airstream experiences a force perpendicular to the direction of the airstream.
Fletton Fletton is an area of Peterborough in England lying in the centre of the city, to the south of the River Nene (and thus historically part of Huntingdonshire, although not part of the present district of that name). It is divided into Old Fletton, which was originally a separate town and had its own council (Old Fletton Urban District Council) prior to local government reorganisation in 1974, and New Fletton, which was part of the then Soke of Peterborough.
Fleur bleue (The Apprentice) Fleur bleue is a 1971 Quebec-made comedy/drama film starring Susan Sarandon and Steve Fiset. Although the title literally translates to English as Blue Flower, it is better known in English as The Apprentice, which is a better translation of the idiom used in the title.
Fleur de Lys Fleur de Lys is a superheroine from Quebec and an ally of Northguard, created in 1984 by Mark Shainblum and Gabriel Morrissette. The name of the character is inspired by the heraldic symbol of the fleur de lys.
Fleur de Rhé-Philipe Fleur de Rhé-Philipe is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is the Conservative member of Wiltshire County Council representing the Westbury Laverton division and is the Cabinet member for Highways, Transport & Economic Development.
Fleur de sel Fleur de sel ("Flower of salt" in French) is a hand-harvested sea salt collected by workers who scrape only the top layer of salt before it sinks to the bottom of large salt pans. Traditional French Fleur de sel is collected off the coast of Brittany, and is slightly grey due to the sandy minerals that are collected in the process of harvesting the salt from the pans.
Fleur Delacour Fleur Delacour (born c 1977) is a fictional character from the Harry Potter series of books. She first appeared in the fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and later appeared in the sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and is confirmed to appear in the final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Fleur Saville Fleur Saville (born 14 July 1984) is a New Zealand actress best known for her roles in Being Eve and The Tribe in which she became known to international audiences for her portrayal of Ruby. Felur is currently on the New Zealand Soap Opera Shortland Street where she plays Libby Jeffries.
Fleur van de Kieft Fleur Nicolette Andrea van de Kieft (born October 22, 1973 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland) is a former field hockey striker from The Netherlands, who played 137 official international matches for Holland, in which she scored a total number of 44 goals.
Fleur-de-lis The fleur-de-lis (or fleur-de-lys; plural: fleurs-de-lis) is a stylised design of an iris flower which is used both decoratively and symbolically. It may be purely ornamental or it may be "at one and the same time political, dynastic, artistic, emblematic and symbolic",Michel Pastoureau, Heraldry: its origins and meaning translated by Francisca Garvie (Thames and Hudson 1997), ISBN 0-500-30074-7, p.
Fleurieu Art Prize Fleurieu Art Prize was first awarded in 1998 is the richest landscape award in the southern hemisphere offering $50 000 first prize.It is held every 2 years in South Australia and takes its name from the Fleurieu Peninsula, which is the area that surrounds the venue where the exhibition is held.
Fleury Abbey Fleury Abbey (Floriacum) in Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, Loiret, France, was one of the richest and most celebrated Benedictine monasteries of Western Europe. Its modern name is Fleury-Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, based on the claim that the relics of Benedict of Nursia were to be found there.
Flevo Festival The Flevo Festival is an open air Christian music festival held each August in Liempde, The Netherlands. It was first organized in 1978 by the Dutch arm of Youth for Christ and became a private foundation in 2002.
Flex (film) Flex is a video installation by the British video artist Chris Cunningham. It consists of a 15 minute film loop that endlessly depicts a naked man and woman floating in darkness, who by turns embrace and furiously beat one another, culminating in an act of anal sex during which they disappear in a blast of light.
Flex dollar Flex dollars are a form of payment used at large institutions, especially Universities. James Madison University, University College in the University of Toronto, Queen's University and University of Western Ontario, and Messiah College are all schools that use this system.
Flex machine The Flex machine was developed at the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency in Malvern during the 1980s. It used a tagged storage scheme to implement a capability architecture, and was designed for the safe and efficient implementation of strongly-typed procedures.
Flex Mentallo Flex Mentallo is a comic book character who first appeared in 1990 in issue #35 of Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol as a member of the audience for Danny the Street's Perpetual Cabaret. Later in the storyline, Flex realises that he is actually "The Man of Muscle Mystery", and tidies his appearance.
Flexagon In geometry, flexagons are flat models made from folded strips of paper that can be folded, or flexed, to reveal a number of hidden faces. They are amusing toys but have also caught the interest of mathematicians.
Flexbone formation The flexbone formation is an offensive formation in American football also called the wing-T that utilizes a quarterback, five offensive linemen, three running backs, and varying numbers of tight ends and wide receivers. The flexbone formation is a predominant running formation derived from the wishbone formation and it features a quarterback under center with a fullback lined up directly behind the quarterback.
Flexcar Flexcar is a for-profit car sharing company, the oldest and second-largest (behind Boston-based Zipcar) in the United States. Flexcar can date its origins to March 1998, when its Portland, Oregon office was founded as a separate company; Flexcar itself was founded in January 2000 in Seattle, Washington.
Flexi disc The flexi disc (also known as a phonosheet or sonosheet) is a phonograph record made of a thin vinyl sheet with a molded-in spiral stylus groove, and is designed to be playable on a normal phonograph turntable. Flexible records were commercially introduced as the Evatone Soundsheet in 1960, but were previously available in the Soviet Union as roentgenizdat or bones, underground recordings on x-ray plates.
Flexibility (anatomy) Flexibility refers to the absolute range of movement in a joint or series of joints that is attainable in a momentary effort with the help of a partner or a piece of equipment. Flexibility in some joints can be increased to a certain degree by stretching.
Flexibility method In structural engineering, the flexibility method is the classical consistent deformation method for computing member forces and displacements in structural systems. Its modern version formulated in terms of the members' flexibility matrices also has the name the matrix force method due to its use of member forces as the primary unknowns.
Flexible baton round The flexible baton round is the trademarked name for a type of less lethal ammunition; it is more widely known as a beanbag round. It is typically fired from a shotgun, and is used by police and military forces, mainly in the United States.
Flexible electronics Flexible electronics, also known as flex circuits or flex circuit boards, is a technology for building electronic circuits by depositing electronic devices on flexible substrates such as plastic. In the simplest case, flexible electronics can be made by using the same components used for rigid printed circuit boards.
Flexible Learning Flexible Learning is a set of educational philosophies and systems, concerned with providing learners with increased choice, convenience, and personalisation to suit the learner. In particular, flexible learning provides learners with choices about where, when, and how learning occurs.
Flexible Learning Toolbox The Flexible Learning Toolboxes (Toolboxes) Project develops high quality, cost effective elearning content to support training for vocational and technical education qualifications from Certificate I to Diploma level in the Australian vocational and technical education (VTE) sector.
Flexible manufacturing system A flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is a manufacturing system in which there is some amount of flexibility which allows the system to react in the case of changes, whether predicted or unpredicted. This flexibility is generally considered to fall into two categories, within which are numerous other subcategories.
Flexible mold A mold is a hollow shape which exactly encloses the shape of a desired object. The object is usually created by pouring a liquid into the mold and allowing it to solidify: typical liquids include molten metal or plastic, plaster of Paris, epoxy resin.
Flexible Mechanisms …Flexible mechanisms, also sometimes knows as Flexibility Mechanisms or Kyoto Mechanisms), refers to Emissions Trading, the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation. These are mechanisms defined under the Kyoto Protocol intended to lower the overall costs of achieving its emissions targets.
Flexible polyhedra Flexible polyhedra are polyhedral surfaces which allow continuous non-rigid deformations such that all faces remain rigid. The Cauchy rigidity theorem shows that in dimension 3 such polyhedra cannot be convex (this is also true in higher dimensions).
Flexible product development Although the development of a new product naturally involves change from what came before it, the business processes and project management methodologies usually used for product development are not designed to accommodate change. The more innovative a new product is, the more likely it is that the voice of the customer, marketplace conditions, or the technologies being incorporated into the product will change during the course of development.
Flexible rake receiver In a Flexible Rake Receiver, signal reception is performed with a single correlator engine and a stream buffer storing the entire delay spread of baseband input/output (I/O) samples. The primary advantage of the proposed approach is flexible multipath allocation supporting enhanced modularity of the receiver and resource sharing among multiple channel decoders.
Flexible shaft A flexible shaft is a device for transmitting rotary motion between two objects which are not fixed relative to one another. It consists of a rotating wire rope or coil which is flexible but has some torsional stiffness.
Flexible single master operation Flexible single master operation (FSMO, F is sometimes floating ; pronounced Fiz-mo), or just single master operation or operations master, is a feature of Microsoft's Active Directory (AD). Recently, as of 2005, the term FSMO has being deprecated in favour of operations masters.
Flexible spending account A flexible spending account (FSA) is a tax-advantaged financial account set up through the cafeteria plan of an employer in the United States. An FSA allows an employee to set aside a portion of his or her earnings to pay for qualified expenses as established in the cafeteria plan, most commonly for medical expenses but sometimes for dependent care or other expenses.
Flexible-fuel vehicle A flexible-fuel vehicle (FFV) or dual-fuel vehicle (also sometimes called only flex-fuel) is an automobile that can typically alternate between two sources of fuel. A common example is a vehicle that can accept gasoline mixed with varying levels of bioethanol (gasohol).
Flexicurity Flexicurity (a portmanteau of [and security]) is a [[welfare state model with a pro-active labour market policy. The model is a combination of easy hiring and firing (flexibility for employers) and high benefits for the unemployed (security for the employees).
Flexiform Skysails Flexiform Skysails manufactured hang gliders, famous for many landmark advances with models such as the Skyline, Polaris and Highlander to name but a few. The company was founded in the late 1970’s by the innovative Paul Maritos.
FlexiMusic Wave Editor FlexiMusic Wave Editor is a digital audio editor computer program from FlexiMusic for professionals and home users for Microsoft Windows. It can edit and record music, apply effects and filters, adjust stereo channels etc..
Flexion In anatomy, flexion is a position that is made possible by the joint angle decreasing. The skeletal (bones, cartilage, and ligaments) and muscular (muscles and tendons) systems work together to move the joint into a "flexed" position.
Flexity Classic The Flexity Classic is a model of light-rail tram manufactured by Bombardier. Although it is marketed as the most traditionally-designed member of the Flexity family, it is nevertheless a modern bi-directional articulated tram with a low-floor section allowing improved accessibility, especially to passengers in wheelchairs.
Flexity Classic XXL The Flexity Classic XXL is a low floor tram developed for the Dresden Transport Authority by the German factory Bombardier Transportation in Bautzen. It is 45 m long, runs on twelve axles and has a capacity of 260 passengers with 153 seats.
Flexity Link The Flexity Link is a low-floor tram-train manufactured by Bombardier Transportation. It is designed to be able to run both on an urban tram network and on main railway lines, in order to provide direct journeys into a city's centre without passengers having to transfer from a regional train to a tram.
Flexity Swift The Flexity Swift tram is a light-rail vehicle manufactured by Bombardier Transportation. Most models follow a 70% low-floor design in order to allow access to those in wheelchairs without requiring the construction of high platforms, though some of Cologne's fleet use a high-floor format (900 mm) with level boarding platforms instead, in order to retain compatibility with stations built for older trams.
Flexlink FlexLink is a world-leading Swedish company, with deep roots in industrial manufacturing of high volume lightweight goods. FlexLink automates material handling processes within: filling, machining, assembly, and packaging.
Flexner Report The Flexner Report is a book-length study of medical education in the United States and Canada, written by the professional educator Abraham Flexner and published in 1910 under the aegis of the Carnegie Foundation. Many aspects of the present-day American medical profession stem from the Flexner Report and its aftermath.
Flexnet Flexnet is Macrovision's flagship software protection system, successor of the Safecast protection system. Combining the strength of Safecast and Flexlm, featuring product activation and executable wrapping, supporting floating and node locked licensing models.
Flexor digitorum superficialis muscle Flexor digitorum superficialis (flexor digitorum sublimis) is an extrinsic flexor muscle of the fingers at the proximal interphalangeal joints. The bulk of the muscle is in the intermediate layer of the anterior compartment of the forearm.
Flexor hallucis brevis muscle The Flexor hallucis brevis arises, by a pointed tendinous process, from the medial part of the under surface of the cuboid bone, from the contiguous portion of the third cuneiform, and from the prolongation of the tendon of the Tibialis posterior which is attached to that bone.
Flexplace A company policy or program that enables employees to have more decision authority on where they will work regardless of time of day. For example, they may choose to work in the office or from home or from a client's office or even a café.
Flexplay Flexplay is a trademark for a DVD-compatible optical video disk format with a time-limited (usually 48-hour) playback time. They are often described as "self-destructing" although the disc merely turns black and does not physically disintegrate.
Flexport Flexport is a company incorporated in Sri Lanka to design and manufacture custom made trophies, medals, corporate gifts, plaques, souvenirs, signs and other light engineering products. The company's motto is "You name it, We make it".
Flextime plan Flextime (or flexitime) is a variable work schedule, in contrast to traditional work arrangements requiring employees to work a standard 9am to 5pm day. Under flexitime, there is typically a "core time" period of the day when employees are expected to be at work (for example, between 10 am and 4pm), whilst the rest of the working day is "flexitime", in which employees can choose when they work, subject to achieving total daily, weekly or monthly hours in the region of what the employer expects, and subject to the necessary work being done.
Flexus (ticket) Flexus is an electronic ticket system that will be introduced on all public transport in Greater Oslo, probably in 2007. The system will replace all paper tickets on trips with Oslo Sporveier (including Oslo T-bane and the Oslo trams), Stor-Oslo Lokaltrafikk and commuter trains around Oslo operated by the Norwegian State Railway.

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