English Dictionary: Flex | by the DICT Development Group |
6 results for Flex | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Flex \Flex\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flexed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flexing}.] [L. flexus, p. p. of flectere to bend, perh. flectere and akin to falx sickle, E. falchion. Cf. {Flinch}.] To bend; as, to flex the arm. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Flex \Flex\, n. Flax. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Flex++ {GNU}'s {Flex} {scanner generator} retargeted to {C++} by Alain Coetmeur {(ftp://iecc.com/pub/file/flex++.tar.gz)}. {(ftp://iecc.com/pub/file/misc++.tar.gz)}. {(ftp://ftp.th-darmstadt.de/pub/programming/languages/C++/tools/flex++-3.0.tar.gz)}. (1993-07-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
FLEX 2. A {real-time} language for dynamic environments. ["FLEX: Towards Flexible Real-Time Programs", K. Lin et al, Computer Langs 16(1):65-79, Jan 1991]. 3. An early {object-oriented} language developed for the {FLEX} machine by {Alan Kay} in about 1967. The FLEX language was a simplification of {Simula} and a predecessor of {Smalltalk}. (1995-03-29) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Flex at the (then) {Royal Signals and Radar Establishment} at Malvern in the late 1970s. The hardware was custom and {microprogrammable}, with an {operating system}, (modular) {compiler}, editor, {garbage collector} and {filing system} all written in {Algol-68}. Flex was also re-implemented on the {Perq}(?). [I. F. Currie and others, "Flex Firmware", Technical Report, RSRE, Number 81009, 1981]. [I. F. Currie, "In Praise of Procedures", RSRE, 1982]. (1997-11-17) |