Flap
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Flap may refer to:
- Flap (aircraft), a hinged surface on the trailing edge of an airplane wing
- Roof flap, an aerodynamic feature of race cars
- Flapping, one of the basic mechanics of flight in birds
- Flap, any hinged plate often used as a cover or a simple one-way valve
- Flap consonant, a sound produced by brief contact between the tongue and the roof of the mouth
- Intervocalic alveolar flapping, a process by which a /t/ phoneme before an unstressed vowel is pronounced as a flap consonant
- Free flap, a surgical transfer of vascularised tissue
- Flap, a minor character from Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
- Route flapping, when a router alternately advertises a destination network first via one route then another
- Brouhaha, a general state of social agitation
- 5-lipoxygenase activating protein (FLAP)
[edit] See also
- Flapper, a woman who wore a certain style of clothes in the 1920s
- Flapping races, unlicensed horse rains in the UK and Ireland
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