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Floorplanning (EDA)
Floorplanning in electronic design automation is the first major step of physical design for an integrated circuit, defining the die and core areas and placing blocks.
Flophouse
Flophouse: American slang (first recorded 1904) for a cheap, run-down hotel or boarding house, the bottom tier of single-room occupancy (SRO) housing; historically 5–10 cents a night, largely eliminated by codes, zoning, and urban renewal.
Floppy disk
The floppy disk, also called a diskette, is a removable magnetic storage medium introduced by IBM in 1971; the 3.5-inch 1.44 MB version became the PC standard.
Floppy eyelid syndrome
Floppy eyelid syndrome (FES), also called lax eyelid condition-related syndrome, is an underdiagnosed eyelid laxity disorder with easy upper-lid eversion, chronic papillary conjunctivitis, and strong association with obesity and obstructive sleep apnea.
Floppy iris syndrome
Intraoperative floppy iris syndrome (IFIS), also called floppy iris syndrome, is a triad of billowing iris, iris prolapse, and progressive miosis during cataract surgery, strongly linked to tamsulosin (Flomax) use for benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Floquet code
A Floquet code is a quantum error-correcting code whose protected information is dynamically generated by a periodic schedule of few-qubit measurements, exemplified by the 2021 Hastings-Haah honeycomb code.
Floquet engineering
Floquet engineering is the control of quantum systems by periodic driving, most often laser or microwave light, and is a major theme in condensed matter physics and quantum simulation.
Floquet prethermalization
Floquet prethermalization is the suppression of heating in a high-frequency periodically driven many-body system, which settles into a long-lived state described by an approximately conserved effective Hamiltonian.
Floquet theory
Floquet theory is the mathematical framework for linear differential systems with periodically varying coefficients, reducing their analysis to an eigenvalue problem over one driving period; it underpins Floquet engineering in quantum mechanics.
Floquet topological insulator
A Floquet topological insulator is a topological insulating phase created by periodically driving a quantum system with laser or microwave light, first proposed in 2010 and observed in 2013.
Floquet–Bloch states
Floquet–Bloch states are quasistationary electronic states of a periodic solid driven by coherent light, hybridizing Bloch electrons with photons into replica bands first observed in 2013 with tr-ARPES.
Floquet–Bloch states on the surface of a topological insulator
Floquet–Bloch states on the surface of a topological insulator are photon-dressed replicas of the surface Dirac bands formed under intense periodic light, first observed on Bi₂Se₃ in 2013.
Flor Contemplacion
Flor Contemplacion (Flor Ramos Contemplacion, 1953-1995), Filipina domestic worker hanged in Singapore on 17 March 1995 for the 1991 murders of Della Maga and Nicholas Huang; her execution triggered a Philippines-Singapore diplomatic crisis and R.A. 8042.
Flor Crombet
Flor Crombet, born Francisco Adolfo Crombet Tejera (1851–1895), was a Cuban independence general who fought in all three of Cuba's nineteenth-century wars against Spain and commanded the 1895 expedition that landed Antonio Maceo in Cuba.
Flor Silvestre
Flor Silvestre (Guillermina Jiménez Chabolla, 1930–2020), Mexican ranchera singer, actress, and equestrienne of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, star of Ánimas Trujano, wife of Antonio Aguilar, mother of Pepe Aguilar.
Flora and Son
Flora and Son is a 2023 musical comedy-drama by John Carney starring Eve Hewson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Orén Kinlan, and Jack Reynor. Premiered at Sundance 2023, sold to Apple TV+ for a reported $20 million, released theatrically September 22 and streaming September 29, 2023.
Flora camouflage
Flora (Флора), also known as VSR-98, is a military camouflage pattern of the Russian Armed Forces, adopted in 1998, nicknamed Arbuz for its dark stripes, and replaced by the pixelated EMR design.
Flora Danica
Flora Danica is a monumental illustrated botanical atlas of Danish wild plants, published in Copenhagen in 51 parts from 1761 to 1883 with 3,240 colored copperplate engravings.
Flora Duffy
Flora Duffy, Bermudian triathlete (born 1987, Paget), Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion and Bermuda's first Olympic gold medallist; four-time world champion 2016-2022; retired July 2026.
Flora E. van Leeuwen
Flora E. van Leeuwen, known in the Netherlands as Floor van Leeuwen, is a Dutch cancer epidemiologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam who has researched cancer risk factors there since 1981.
Flora family
Flora family, large inner-main-belt asteroid family around (8) Flora, 2.12-2.25 AU, mostly S-type, about 910 million years old, bounded by the nu6 and 3:1 resonances and overlapping Baptistina, Vesta, and Nysa-Polana.
Flora Hyacinth
Flora Hyacinth is a Virgin Islands track and field athlete, born in 1966, who specialized in the long jump and competed at three Olympic Games starting in 1992.
Flora M. Vaccarino
Flora M. Vaccarino is a physician-scientist and stem-cell biologist at Yale University who pioneered three-dimensional brain organoids from induced pluripotent stem cells in 2012, modeling autism and Tourette syndrome.
Flora Nwapa
Flora Nwapa, born Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa, was a Nigerian novelist, teacher, and publisher whose debut Efuru (1966) made her the first Nigerian woman novelist to publish in English.
Flora of Chile
The flora of Chile (Flora de Chile) is the roughly 4,655 native vascular plant species of Chile, about 40% endemic, shaped by isolation between the Atacama Desert, Andes, and Pacific.
Flora of China
Flora of China (《中国植物志》英文修订版), English revision of FRPS; 25 text volumes, 1994–2013, Missouri Botanical Garden and Science Press; catalogs 31,362 Chinese vascular plant species.
Flora of Ireland
Flora of Ireland: the island's native and naturalized plants. Notable for 797 bryophyte species in a cool moist climate, a vascular flora poorer than Britain's (74 British natives absent), Red List No. 14 (2025), and Flora (Protection) Order 2022.
Flora of the Australian Capital Territory
Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: the plants, fungi, and lichens of the ACT around Canberra, documented in the CANB-based Census (2,866 species, 2019) and protected under the Nature Conservation Act 2014.
Flora of Western Australia
Flora of Western Australia: about 13,000 vascular plant species, ~10,000 named, centered on the Southwest Australian Floristic Region biodiversity hotspot; documented by the Western Australian Herbarium, WA Plant Census, and Florabase.
Flora Peyvandi
Flora Peyvandi is an Italian hematologist at the University of Milan who led the SIPPET and HERCULES trials and served as ISTH President from 2022 to 2024.