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Flehmen response
Flehmen response, also called flehmening or the flehmen grimace: a mammalian lip-curling, head-raising behavior that draws pheromones into the vomeronasal organ, used mainly by male ungulates and felids to detect estrus.
Fleischer Studios
Fleischer Studios: American animation studio (Out of the Inkwell, Inc., 1921; Fleischer Studios, Inc., 1929) founded by Max and Dave Fleischer, Disney's main pre-war rival; creator of Koko the Clown, Betty Boop, Popeye, and Superman cartoons; inventor of the Rotoscope; taken over by Paramount in 1941 and renamed Famous Studios.
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Fleishman Is in Trouble is Taffy Brodesser-Akner's 2019 debut novel about divorced hepatologist Toby Fleishman, whose ex-wife Rachel disappears; narrated by Libby Epstein, it was longlisted for the National Book Award and adapted into FX's 2022 series.
Fleishman Is in Trouble (miniseries)
Fleishman Is in Trouble is an eight-episode FX/Hulu limited series (2022) adapted by Taffy Brodesser-Akner from her 2019 novel, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Claire Danes, and Lizzy Caplan in a perspective-shifting Manhattan divorce drama.
Fleiss' kappa
Fleiss' kappa is a chance-corrected statistic measuring agreement among three or more raters classifying the same items into nominal categories, introduced by Joseph L. Fleiss in 1971.
Fleming (lunar crater)
Fleming is a large, heavily degraded impact crater on the Moon's far side (126.37 km diameter, 14.91°N, 109.28°E), named in 1970 for astronomers Williamina and Alexander Fleming jointly, and anchoring the pre-Nectarian Lomonosov-Fleming basin.
Fleming Glacier
Fleming Glacier, a fast-flowing glacier on the southwest Antarctic Peninsula feeding the former Wordie Ice Shelf, named for W.L.S. Fleming; accelerated, thinned up to 160 m, and retreated after the shelf's disintegration.
Fleming's left-hand rule for motors
Fleming's left-hand rule for motors is a mnemonic giving the direction of the force on a current-carrying wire in a magnetic field, devised by John Ambrose Fleming.
Fleming's right-hand rule
Fleming's right-hand rule, also called the generator or dynamo rule, is a mnemonic giving the direction of current induced in a conductor moving through a magnetic field.
Flemington Racecourse
Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne's premier horse racing venue and home of the Melbourne Cup since 1861, racing continuously since 3 March 1840, National Heritage listed 2006, VRC-trusteed.
Flemish Baroque painting
Flemish Baroque painting is the dramatic, colorful 17th-century style of the Catholic Southern Netherlands, shaped by the Counter-Reformation and epitomized by Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens.
Flemish Béguinages
Flemish Béguinages (Vlaamse begijnhoven), 13 UNESCO World Heritage sites in Belgium inscribed in 1998, enclosed communities of lay religious women called béguines, founded from the 13th century, distinctive for combining religious and domestic life.
Flemish bond
Flemish bond, also called Dutch bond, is a brickwork pattern in which each course alternates headers and stretchers, giving a checker-like face favored from the 17th century onward.
Flemish Cap
The Flemish Cap is an underwater plateau in the northwest Atlantic east of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, separated by the deep Flemish Pass and managed by NAFO as Division 3M.
Flemish Community
Flemish Community (Vlaamse Gemeenschap), Dutch-speaking Community of federal Belgium alongside the French and German-speaking Communities; merged institutions with the Flemish Region, 124-member parliament, competences in education, culture, health and welfare.
Flemish Giant rabbit
The Flemish Giant rabbit is a domestic rabbit breed from Flanders, Belgium, and the largest in the world, with adults typically weighing 15 to 22 pounds.
Flemish literature
Flemish literature is literature in the Dutch language written by authors from Flanders, the Dutch-speaking northern part of Belgium, with major figures including Louis Paul Boon and Hugo Claus.
Flemish Movement
The Flemish Movement (Vlaamse beweging) is the collective movement defending the Dutch language in Belgium since 1830, whose demands evolved from language rights into political self-government.
Flemish people
Flemish people (Vlamingen) are the Dutch-speaking inhabitants of Flanders, Belgium, including Dutch speakers of Brussels. They speak Belgian Dutch with four dialect areas, shaped by the Flemish Movement, the 1898 Equality Law, and hyperstandardization on the Netherlandic Dutch norm.
Flemish Region
Flemish Region (Vlaams Gewest), one of Belgium's three federal regions, established in 1980; covers Antwerp, Flemish Brabant, West Flanders, East Flanders, Limburg; institutions merged with the Flemish Community.
Flemming Besenbacher
Flemming Besenbacher (born 1952) is a Danish nanoscientist at Aarhus University known for scanning tunnelling microscopy of catalysts, who also chaired the Carlsberg Group from 2012 to 2022.
Flemming Davanger
Flemming Davanger (born 1963, Bergen) is a Norwegian curler, Olympic gold medalist at Salt Lake City 2002 playing second for Pål Trulsen's rink; also 1992 demonstration silver, 2005 European champion, three World Championship medals.
Flender (gearbox manufacturer)
Flender GmbH is a German manufacturer of industrial gear units, couplings, and generators, founded in 1899 and headquartered in Bocholt, supplying wind turbine drivetrains under its Winergy brand.
Flensburg
Flensburg (Danish: Flensborg) is Germany's northernmost city, a kreisfreie Stadt in Schleswig-Holstein on the Flensburg Firth near Denmark; about 96,300 residents, a 1284 charter, a historic rum trade, and the 1920 Schleswig plebiscite.
Flensburg Government
Flensburg Government (geschäftsführende Reichsregierung Dönitz), the last German Reich government under Karl Dönitz and Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, 2–23 May 1945, seated at the Marineschule Mürwik, tolerated only to sign Germany's surrender, arrested 23 May 1945.
Fler
Fler is a German rapper from Berlin active in hip hop since 2002, known as a gangsta-rap pioneer of the 2000s and the head of his own label, Maskulin.
Flerovium
Flerovium, formerly called ununquadium, is a synthetic superheavy chemical element with symbol Fl and atomic number 114, first produced in 1998 at JINR in Dubna, Russia.
Flesch–Kincaid readability tests
The Flesch–Kincaid readability tests: Flesch Reading Ease (1948) and Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level (1975), English readability formulas using sentence length and syllables per word, built into Microsoft Word and widely used in health, legal, and government writing.
Flesh
Flesh is a 2020 Hindi-language Eros Now crime thriller web series, also known as Плоть, directed by Danish Aslam, starring Swara Bhasker as ACP Radha Nautiyal investigating the trafficking of missing teenager Zoya Gupta.
Flesh (Szalay novel)
Flesh is David Szalay's sixth novel, winner of the 2025 Booker Prize. It follows István, a taciturn Hungarian man, from adolescence through Iraq service, London wealth, and decline, in spare prose marked by repeated 'OK' replies.