Flex

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Flex may refer to:

Computing

• FLEX (operating system), a single-tasking operating system was developed by Technical Systems Consultants for the Motorola 6800 and 6809 MPUs beginning in the 1970s
• FLEX (protocol), a communication protocol developed by Motorola and used in many pagers
• Flex lexical analyser, a free software alternative to Lex
• Flex machine
• Adobe Flex, a technology for developing rich internet applications initially released by Macromedia in March of 2004
• FLEX, a family of automatic test equipment produced by Teradyne

Culture

• Flex (Pitch Black EP), a 2003 album by the New Zealand band Pitch Black
• Funkmaster Flex, an American hip hop DJ
• Flex (comics), a Marvel Comics character.
• Flex Alexander, an American actor and comedian

Other

• Femtosecond Lenticule EXtraction, an ocular surgical procedure
• FLEX (magazine), an American bodybuilding magazine
• Flexible spending account, a tax-advantaged savings account set up through an employer in the United States
• Flexible-fuel vehicles, an automobile that can alternate between two sources of fuel
• FLEX (Language Teaching), a format of language instruction
• FLEX mission, a mission submitted to the European Space Agency
• Flextronics International Ltd. (NASDAQ symbo: FLEX), an electronics manufacturing services provider based in Singapore
• Flex, a shampoo manufactured by Revlon
• FLEX-Elektrowerkzeuge, a manufacturer of power tools
• Frequency Level Expander (FLEX), a Pioneer Corporation technology to improve high-frequency response in audio tape decks
• Flexion, an anatomical term of motion