Flex

Flex or FLEX may refer to:

Science and technology

• Bending, also known as flexure, as used in mechanics
• Power cord, or flex, a flexible electrical cable
  • Flex, a flexible cable, as used on electrical appliances
• Flex circuit, a flexible printed circuit used in electronic assemblies
• Femtosecond Lenticule EXtraction, a form of refractive eye surgery
• Flex-fuel, a flexible-fuel vehicle
• FLEX mission, a potential satellite launch mission by the European Space Agency
• Frequency Level Expander, a Pioneer Corporation tape enhancement feature
• Flex temp, a reduced takeoff thrust setting which trades excess performance for reduced engine wear
• Inflection point, of a curve in geometry
• Flexion, in anatomy, a position made possible by the joint angle decreasing

Computing

• Apache Flex, formerly Adobe Flex, technologies for developing rich internet applications
• Flex (language), developed by Alan Kay
• Flex lexical analyser, a free software alternative to lex
• Flex machine, a computer developed by RSRE in the 1980s
• FLEX (operating system), a single-tasking operating system for the Motorola 6800
• FlexOS, a modular real-time multi-user multi-tasking operating system developed by Digital Research
• FLEX (protocol), a communication protocol for pagers
• FLEX (SIL FieldWorks Language Explorer), an open source application for linguists developed by SIL International
• Flex, a family of automatic test equipment produced by Teradyne

Music

• Flex (singer), Félix Danilo Gómez (born 1974), Panamanian singer
• Flex Alexander, Mark Alexander Knox (b. 1970), an American actor and comedian
• Flex (album), Lene Lovich's 1979 second album
• Flex (EP) a 2003 EP by Pitch Black
• Funkmaster Flex, Aston George Taylor Jr (b. 1968), an American hip hop DJ
• Flex (Mad Cobra song), a 1993-94 hit song by Mad Cobra
• "Flex" (song) a 2007 hit song by Dizzee Rascal
• Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh), a 2015 song by Rich Homie Quan

Organizations

• Flextronics (NASDAQ symbol: FLEX), a contract electronics maker in Singapore
• Flex-Elektrowerkzeuge, a German producer of power tools
• Flex Your Rights, a civil-liberties non-profit based in Washington DC, US
• Flex Linhas Aéreas, a Brazilian regional airline
• Flex (club), a nightclub in Vienna, Austria

People

• Walter Flex (1887–1917), German author

Other uses

• Ford Flex, a full sized people mover vehicle
• Fleet Landing Exercises, a series of landing exercises conducted by the Fleet Marine Force, a combined-United States Navy/Marine landing force
• Future Leaders Exchange, an American student exchange program for high school students from the former Soviet Union
• Flex (comics), a fictional superhero
• Flex (magazine), an American bodybuilding magazine
• Flex (film), a commercial/short film by English director Chris Cunningham

See also

• Bend (disambiguation)
• Flexible (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Flex"
• All pages with titles containing Flex