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FlatBuffers
FlatBuffers is an open-source binary serialization library released by Google in 2014, letting programs read data directly from the buffer without parsing or extra memory allocation.
Flatbush Zombies
Flatbush Zombies are a Brooklyn hip-hop trio (Meechy Darko, Zombie Juice, Erick the Architect) formed in 2010, known for psychedelic East Coast rap, the independent Glorious Dead label, the mixtapes D.R.U.G.S. and BetterOffDEAD, and the Billboard 200 top-10 debut album 3001: A Laced Odyssey.
Flatcar
A flatcar, also called a flat wagon, is a railroad freight car consisting of a flat deck with no sides, ends, or roof, carrying weather-tolerant cargo.
Flatfish
Flatfish (Pleuronectiformes), also called flounders, soles, and halibuts, are asymmetrical benthic fishes whose both eyes migrate to one side during metamorphosis; over 500 species, commercially important, with Atlantic halibut endangered.
Flathead engine
The flathead engine, also called a side-valve or L-head engine, has valves in the engine block, not the cylinder head, and dominated motoring into the 1950s.
Flathead Lake
Flathead Lake: largest natural freshwater lake by surface area in the western US outside Alaska, in northwest Montana; 27.3 mi long, 370.7 ft deep, remnant of Glacial Lake Missoula, monitored by FLBS since 1899.
Flatidae
Flatidae, flatid planthoppers, a family of Fulgoroidea planthoppers with over 300 genera and nearly 1,500 species, two subfamilies (Flatinae, Flatoidinae), worldwide but mainly tropical, including about 20 crop pest species such as Metcalfa pruinosa.
Flatiron Building
The Flatiron Building, officially the Fuller Building, is a triangular 22-story skyscraper at 175 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, completed in 1902 to a design by Daniel Burnham.
Flatiron District
Flatiron District: Manhattan neighborhood named for the 1902 Flatiron Building (Fuller Building) by Daniel Burnham at Broadway, Fifth Avenue, and 23rd Street; commercial district around Madison Square Park, NYC landmark since 1966, now converting to residences.
Flatiron Health
Flatiron Health is a New York City healthcare technology company, founded in 2012 by Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg, that builds oncology electronic health record software and real-world evidence datasets.
Flatland
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin Abbott Abbott's 1884 satirical novella published as "A Square", set in a two-dimensional world of ranked polygons; satire of Victorian class and gender plus an introduction to higher dimensions.
Flatliners
Flatliners (1990) is a Joel Schumacher psychological horror film, written by Peter Filardi, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, and Oliver Platt as medical students who induce clinical death to explore the afterlife; it opened number 1 in August 1990 and was remade in 2017.
Flatliners (2017 film)
Flatliners is a 2017 American psychological horror film directed by Niels Arden Oplev, in which five medical students stop their hearts and are haunted by visions of past wrongs.
Flatmates
Flatmates: BBC iPlayer comedy drama (2019-2021, 18 episodes), spin-off of Millie Inbetween, five Manchester teens sharing a flat; distinct from BBC Learning English's The Flatmates soap and other same-titled shows.
FlatOut (video game)
FlatOut (2004) is a demolition racing game by Finland's Bugbear Entertainment, published by Empire Interactive for PS2, Xbox, and PC, known for its ragdoll driver minigames, 40-piece car damage model, and the FlatOut series it started.
Flatpay
Flatpay is a Danish payments fintech founded in Copenhagen in 2022 that sells flat-rate card terminals and POS software to small merchants, becoming a unicorn in 2025.
FlatSat
A FlatSat is an electrical model of a satellite with its subsystems laid out side by side on a workbench, giving engineers direct access to buses and components.
Flattened rice
Flattened rice, also called poha, aval, or chiura, is parboiled dehusked rice pressed into dry flakes that rehydrate in minutes. Sold in thin and thick grades, it is a South Asian breakfast staple and often iron-fortified.
Flattr
Flattr was a Swedish social micropayment service started by Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde and Linus Olsson in 2010, letting users share a monthly budget among creators.
Flatulence
Flatulence (flatus, farting) is passing intestinal gas through the rectum; normal at 8–14 times daily, caused by swallowed air and colonic bacterial fermentation, odor from sulfur compounds, managed by diet and low-FODMAP changes.
Flatulence humor
Flatulence humor, or fart jokes, is toilet humor based on flatulence. The oldest recorded joke, a Sumerian proverb from 1900 BC, is a fart joke; the genre spans Aristophanes, Chaucer, Swift, Le Pétomane, and Blazing Saddles.
Flatulist
A flatulist, or professional farter, is an entertainer who performs controlled, often musical passing of gas. Key figures: Roland le Petour of medieval England, Joseph Pujol (Le Pétomane) of the Moulin Rouge, and Mr Methane.
Flatwoods monster
Flatwoods monster, also Braxton County Monster or Braxxie: entity reported by seven witnesses at Flatwoods, West Virginia, on September 12, 1952, after a fireball; about 10 feet tall, spade-shaped head, metallic odor; explained as meteor plus barn owl.
Flatworm
Flatworm (Platyhelminthes): phylum of over 20,000 species of acoelomate, flattened worms, both free-living planarians and parasitic flukes and tapeworms; known for planarian regeneration via neoblasts and the parasitic Neodermata clade.
Flatworm biology
Flatworms, phylum Platyhelminthes, are soft-bodied, bilaterally symmetrical animals with no body cavity, no circulatory or respiratory organs, and a flattened shape; about 80 percent of species are parasitic.
Flaubert (Mercurian crater)
Flaubert is a 95-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 13.7S, 72.2W, named for French novelist Gustave Flaubert and IAU-approved in 1985 under Mercury's artist-and-writer crater naming theme.
Flaugergues (Martian crater)
Flaugergues is a 245-km double-ring impact crater in Mars' southern highlands at 16.8S, 19.2E, named for French astronomer Honore Flaugergues, notable for its unfilled, highland-like interior floor.
FLAURA trial
FLAURA (NCT02296125): phase 3 trial of first-line osimertinib versus gefitinib or erlotinib in 556 patients with EGFR-mutated advanced NSCLC; median PFS 18.9 vs 10.2 months, significant overall survival benefit, basis for FLAURA2.
Flavanone
Flavanone, also called 2,3-dihydroflavone or 2-phenyl-4-chromanone, is the parent compound of the flavanones, a flavonoid subclass distinguished by a saturated C ring and predominant in citrus, where hesperidin and naringin occur.
Flavia Cacace
Flavia Cacace (Cacace-Mistry), Italian-born British ballroom dancer born in Naples, seven-time Strictly Come Dancing professional 2006-2012, 2012 winner with Louis Smith, Vincent Simone's partner in tango titles and West End shows.