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Flirtey
Flirtey was a drone delivery company founded in 2013 by Matthew Sweeny in Reno, Nevada, and conducted the first FAA-approved drone delivery in the United States in 2015.
Flirting
Flirting is playful, deliberately ambiguous verbal and nonverbal communication used to signal or probe romantic or sexual interest. Covers detection accuracy, gender differences, context effects, and AI-assisted digital flirting.
Flirting (1991 film)
Flirting (1991) is John Duigan's Australian coming-of-age sequel to The Year My Voice Broke, starring Noah Taylor and Thandie Newton at 1965 boarding schools; it won the 1990 AFI Best Film award.
Flirting with Disaster (film)
Flirting with Disaster is David O. Russell's 1996 screwball comedy starring Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, and Téa Leoni, in which a new father searches for his birth parents; Cannes premiere, 88% Tomatometer, $14.8M US gross.
Flirty Fishing
Flirty Fishing (FFing) was a 1974–1987 evangelism practice of David Berg's Children of God, in which female members used romantic and sexual attraction, including sex, to recruit male converts and supporters; banned in 1987.
FLISR
FLISR, or fault location, isolation, and service restoration, is a distribution automation function in which electric utilities automatically locate feeder faults, isolate the faulted section, and restore power to unfaulted sections within about a minute.
Flix
Flix, known to travelers as FlixBus, is a Munich-based travel-technology company founded in 2011 that sells long-distance bus and train tickets while partner companies operate the vehicles, including Greyhound.
Flix (TV network)
Flix (stylized FLiX) is an American premium cable and satellite television network launched in 1992, owned by Showtime Networks, showing uncut films without commercial breaks, primarily from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
Flixborough disaster
Flixborough disaster: 1 June 1974 vapour cloud explosion at the Nypro (UK) cyclohexane oxidation plant, North Lincolnshire, after rupture of a temporary 20-inch bypass; 28 killed, 36 injured, plant destroyed.
FlixBus
FlixBus is the long-distance coach brand of Flix SE, a German company founded in Munich in 2013 whose partner-operated green buses have carried over 500 million passengers across more than 40 countries.
FlixMobility GmbH
FlixMobility GmbH, registered as Flix SE since 2022, is a Munich-based mobility technology company founded in 2013 that runs FlixBus, FlixTrain, and Greyhound in 45 countries while partner companies own the vehicles.
Flixster
Flixster was a social movie website founded in San Francisco in 2006 that let users rate and discover films with friends; Warner Bros. acquired it in 2011.
Fljótsdals hydroelectric plant
The Fljótsdals hydroelectric plant (Fljótsdalsstöð, also known as the Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant) is a 690 MW underground station in eastern Iceland, Iceland's largest, built mainly to supply Alcoa's aluminum smelter.
FLNA
FLNA (filamin A), Xq28 gene encoding a 280 kDa actin-crosslinking, mechanosensing cytoskeletal protein. Loss-of-function variants cause FLNA deficiency with periventricular nodular heterotopia; gain-of-function variants cause otopalatodigital spectrum disorders.
FLNB
FLNB (filamin B) is a human gene at 3p14.3 encoding an actin-binding cytoskeletal protein; loss-of-function variants cause spondylocarpotarsal synostosis, gain-of-function variants cause Larsen syndrome and atelosteogenesis.
FLNG
FLNG, or floating liquefied natural gas, is a moored offshore vessel that extracts, liquefies, stores, and offloads LNG at sea, replacing a pipeline to shore and an onshore plant.
Flo (group)
FLO are a British R&B girl group formed in London in 2019 by Jorja Douglas, Stella Quaresma, and Renée Downer. Known for "Cardboard Box" (2022), BRITs Rising Star and BBC Sound of 2023 wins, and albums Access All Areas (2024) and Therapy at the Club (2026).
Flo (Progressive Insurance)
Flo (Progressive Insurance): fictional saleswoman mascot played by Stephanie Courtney, debuting January 14, 2008 in Arnold Worldwide's Superstore campaign; over 100 commercials, white apron, Progressive's longest-running spokesperson.
Flo & Eddie
Flo & Eddie were the American rock duo of Mark Volman (Flo) and Howard Kaylan (Eddie), ex-Turtles singers who adopted the pseudonyms over contractual restrictions, joined Zappa's Mothers of Invention in 1970, recorded comedy-rock albums, and won back the Turtles name in 1983.
Flo Milli
Flo Milli (Tamia Monique Carter, born 2000) is an American rapper from Mobile, Alabama, signed to RCA Records. Known for "Beef FloMix", the mixtape Ho, why is you here ?, and the Platinum hit "Never Lose Me" from Fine Ho, Stay (2024).
Flo Rida
Flo Rida (Tramar Lacel Dillard, b. 1979), Miami Gardens rapper behind 'Low,' 'Right Round,' and 'Whistle'; five Grammy nominations, 30 platinum certifications, and an $82.6 million Celsius verdict.
Flo Wilson
Flo Wilson (born 1963) is an English actress from Manchester, known for Claudette Anderson in Emmerdale, Mrs Wheatley in Sanditon, and Small Island at the National Theatre; distinct from the New Zealand composer of the same name.
Float (oceanography)
In oceanography, a float is an autonomous free-drifting instrument that sinks to a set depth and profiles temperature and salinity, transmitting data by satellite when it surfaces; about 4,000 are operated by the international Argo program.
Float glass
Float glass is flat glass made by floating molten glass on a bath of molten tin, developed by Alastair Pilkington at Pilkington Brothers between 1952 and 1959.
Float-out
A float-out is a ship-launching method in which a vessel built in a dry dock is set afloat by flooding the dock, then moved by tugs to an outfitting berth.
Floater
Floater (eye floater, myodesopsia): a dark spot, thread, or cobweb drifting across vision, caused by vitreous strands casting retinal shadows. Usually harmless; sudden new floaters with flashes signal possible retinal tear.
Floating base dynamics
Floating base dynamics describes the equations of motion of robots whose base, such as a humanoid torso, has no physical joint to the world, making the system underactuated.
Floating car data
Floating car data (FCD) is traffic measurement in which vehicles or travelers' devices report position, direction, and speed, so the moving vehicles themselves act as traffic sensors.
Floating catalyst chemical vapor deposition
Floating catalyst chemical vapor deposition (FCCVD, also called aerosol CVD) is a technique where catalyst nanoparticles float in the gas stream, so carbon nanotubes grow airborne and are collected continuously as films, yarns, and aerogels.
Floating Clouds (浮雲)
Floating Clouds (浮雲, Ukigumo) is Mikio Naruse's 1955 Toho drama adapted from Fumiko Hayashi's final novel, starring Hideko Takamine and Masayuki Mori as lovers unable to part in postwar Japan; it topped the 1955 Kinema Junpo critics' poll.