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English Dictionary: Flexüle by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flex
n
  1. the act of flexing; "he gave his biceps a flex to impress the ladies"
v
  1. contract; "flex a muscle"
  2. exhibit the strength of; "The victorious army flexes its invincibility"
  3. form a curve; "The stick does not bend"
    Synonym(s): bend, flex
    Antonym(s): straighten, unbend
  4. bend a joint; "flex your wrists"; "bend your knees"
    Synonym(s): flex, bend
  5. cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form; "bend the rod"; "twist the dough into a braid"; "the strong man could turn an iron bar"
    Synonym(s): flex, bend, deform, twist, turn
    Antonym(s): unbend
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 .   Version 3.0.
  
      {(ftp://iecc.com/pub/file/flex++.tar.gz)}.
      {(ftp://iecc.com/pub/file/misc++.tar.gz)}.
      {(ftp://ftp.th-darmstadt.de/pub/programming/languages/C++/tools/flex++-3.0.tar.gz)}.
  
      (1993-07-08)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   FLEX
  
      1. {Faster LEX}.
  
      2. A {real-time} language for dynamic environments.
  
      ["FLEX: Towards Flexible Real-Time Programs", K. Lin et al,
      Computer Langs 16(1):65-79, Jan 1991].
  
      3. An early {object-oriented} language developed for the
      {FLEX} machine by {Alan Kay} in about 1967.   The FLEX language
      was a simplification of {Simula} and a predecessor of
      {Smalltalk}.
  
      (1995-03-29)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Flex
  
      A system developed by Ian Currie (Iain?)
      at the (then) {Royal Signals and Radar Establishment} at
      Malvern in the late 1970s.   The hardware was custom and
      {microprogrammable}, with an {operating system}, (modular)
      {compiler}, editor, {garbage collector} and {filing system}
      all written in {Algol-68}.   Flex was also re-implemented on
      the {Perq}(?).
  
      [I. F. Currie and others, "Flex Firmware", Technical Report,
      RSRE, Number 81009, 1981].
  
      [I. F. Currie, "In Praise of Procedures", RSRE, 1982].
  
      (1997-11-17)
  
  
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