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Flock Group Inc.
Flock Group Inc., known as Flock Safety, is an American public-safety technology company in Atlanta, Georgia, whose license plate reader cameras track vehicles for thousands of police agencies.
Flocking control of multi-agent systems
Flocking control is a branch of cooperative control in which autonomous agents coordinate motion using only local neighbor information, moving with common velocity while avoiding collisions.
Flocoumafen
Flocoumafen (Storm, Strategem; CAS 90035-08-8) is a second-generation 4-hydroxycoumarin anticoagulant rodenticide developed in the early 1980s, inhibiting vitamin K epoxide reductase; rat oral LD50 about 0.25 mg/kg, WHO class IA, EU-approved as a candidate for substitution.
Flodder (TV series)
Flodder is a Dutch television comedy series about the antisocial Flodder family, a spin-off of Dick Maas's films, running for 5 seasons from 1993 to 1999.
Floella Benjamin
Floella Benjamin, Baroness Benjamin of Beckenham (born 1949), Trinidadian-British Play School presenter, author of Coming to England, Liberal Democrat peer since 2010, Windrush campaigner, DBE and Order of Merit recipient.
Floer homology
Floer homology is an infinite-dimensional analog of Morse homology introduced by Andreas Floer around 1986, giving invariants in symplectic topology and of 3-manifolds and knots.
Floetry
Floetry is an English neo-soul duo formed in London in 1997, pairing singer Marsha Ambrosius with spoken-word poet Natalie Stewart; their debut Floetic (2002) went platinum.
Flogging a Dead Horse
Flogging a Dead Horse (Sex Pistols compilation album, Virgin V2142, 1980) collects the A- and B-sides of the band's seven UK singles, 14 tracks; peaked at number 23 on the UK Albums Chart; Jamie Reid sleeve aimed at Virgin.
Flogging Molly
Flogging Molly, Los Angeles Celtic punk band formed in 1994 by Dublin-born Dave King (ex-Fastway), named after the pub Molly Malone's; fuses Irish folk instruments with punk rock; albums Swagger through Anthem (2022).
FloHealth
Flo Health is a London-based women's health company founded in 2015 by twin brothers Dmitry and Yuri Gurski, best known for its period-tracking app, which reached unicorn status in 2024.
Flomics
Flomics Biotech is a Spanish liquid-biopsy genomics company in Barcelona, founded in 2018 by CRG and UPF researchers, developing blood tests for early cancer detection using cell-free RNA.
Flomoxef
Flomoxef (FMOX, 6315-S, フロモキセフ; Flumarin) is an oxacephem beta-lactam antibiotic developed by Shionogi, approved in Japan in 1988, active against ESBL-producing Enterobacterales, renally excreted, and rejected for the WHO essential medicines list in 2023.
Flood
A flood is an excess of water on normally dry land, caused by overflowing rivers, heavy rain, snowmelt, or dam failure, and is the most common weather-related disaster.
Flood (Halo)
The Flood (LF.Xx.3273, Inferi redivivus) is Halo's parasitic hive-mind species that infects hosts via infection forms into combat and carrier forms; defeated by the Forerunners' Halo Array in 97,445 BCE, first appearing in Halo: Combat Evolved (2001).
Flood (producer)
Flood, born Mark Ellis in London in 1960, is a British record producer and engineer known for U2's Achtung Baby, Depeche Mode's Violator, Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral, and a shared 2006 Album of the Year Grammy.
Flood barrier
A flood barrier, also known as a storm surge barrier or hurricane barrier, has movable gates closed against storm surge while letting ships pass and tides flow in normal conditions.
Flood barrier failure and maloperation
Flood barrier failure and maloperation covers documented failures of movable flood barriers and gates, including automation errors, missed alarms, corrosion, and power loss during storms.
Flood basalt
A flood basalt, also called plateau basalt, is a massive outpouring of basaltic lava from fissures that covers vast areas; examples include the Deccan and Siberian Traps.
Flood Control Act of 1936
The Flood Control Act of 1936 was a United States federal law, signed June 22, 1936, that made flood control a federal responsibility and authorized about $320 million.
Flood control dams in Japan (chōseichi)
Flood control dams in Japan, called chōseichi, are reservoir dams at least 15 m tall whose storage is reserved to absorb flood peaks; about 793 serve flood control under MLIT.
Flood control in the Netherlands
Flood control in the Netherlands is the system of dikes, dunes, dams, and storm surge barriers protecting a low-lying country where 26% of the land lies below sea level.
Flood control projects scandal in the Philippines
Philippine flood control projects scandal: 2025 corruption controversy over ghost, substandard DPWH flood works; ₱545B program, Discaya contractors, ICI probe, Estrada-Bonoan plunder raps, September 21 protests.
Flood fighting
Flood fighting is the set of emergency actions taken during a flood to keep defenses intact and divert water, such as patrolling levees and sandbagging.
Flood fill
Flood fill is an algorithm that repaints the connected region of same-colored cells around a seed cell in a grid or image, as in a paint bucket tool.
Flood frequency analysis
Flood frequency analysis is a statistical method relating flood magnitude at a river or coastal site to its annual exceedance probability, used in drainage design and dam safety.
Flood hazard
Flood hazard: the physical flood event or condition (depth, velocity, extent, probability, return periods such as 100-year floods), distinct from flood risk, which adds exposure and vulnerability; quantified via exceedance probability functions and hazard maps.
Flood Insurance Rate Map
A Flood Insurance Rate Map is a FEMA map of a community's flood hazard zones and Base Flood Elevations, used for insurance rating and floodplain management since 1968.
Flood inundation mapping
Flood inundation mapping is the geospatial technique that maps the extent and depth of floodwater, using hydraulic models, satellite imagery, or terrain analysis, producing extent maps and depth grids.
Flood myth
Flood myth: worldwide narratives of a great inundation destroying humanity with a warned survivor escaping. Over 300 accounts exist on every continent except Antarctica; the Mesopotamian flood (Atrahasis, Gilgamesh) underlies the Genesis account.
Flood of 1607 and the desagüe of Mexico City
The flood of 1607 submerged Mexico City, prompting Viceroy Luis de Velasco to launch the desagüe, a drainage tunnel built by Enrico Martínez and completed in 1608.