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Flap - Definition and Overview
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The word Flap can refer to several things.

  • Flapping is a repetitive up-and-down motion most commonly associated with a bird's wing.
  • A flap (aircraft) is a hinged surface on the trailing edge of an airplane wing.
  • Flap, in (archaic) computer science jargon, refers to the process for unmounting a magnetic tape. When the system operator commanded a tape drive to unmount a tape, it would rewind the medium and then, as the tape unwrapped from the take-up reel, it would go "flap-flap-flap" as the feed reel spun down.
  • In phonetics and phonology, a flap consonant is a sound produced by brief contact between the tongue and the roof of the mouth.
  • In plastic surgery, a flap is a vascularised tissue transfer.
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Example Usage of Flap
labsoftnews: President of the ACP Defends Evidence-Based-Medicine and USPSTF: In a previous blog note about the recent Flap .. http://bit.ly/8mbQVs
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coalminerdtr: @Flap Ride the unprecedented wave of growth as $200bm health/wellness and personal care ind explode to $1trillion http://bit.ly/ZStZu
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