Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word FLOW

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Definitions of FLOW

1. The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
2. The rising movement of the tide.
3. Smoothness or continuity.
4. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
5. A flow pipe, carrying liquid away from a boiler or other central plant (compare with return pipe which returns fluid to central plant).
6. The emission of blood during menstruation.
7. Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
8. (math) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.
9. (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
10. (rapmusicslang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
11. (software) The sequence of steps taken in a piece of software to perform some action.
12. (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
13. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
14. (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
15. (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
16. (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
17. (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
18. (transitive) To allow (a liquid) to flow.
19. (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
20. (transitive) To cover with varnish.
21. (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
22. (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth; to emanate.
23. (Scotland) A bog or mire, especially a rough, waterlogged one.

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Examples of Using FLOW in a Sentence

• When used by academics, an arbitrage is a transaction that involves no negative cash flow at any probabilistic or temporal state and a positive cash flow in at least one state; in simple terms, it is the possibility of a risk-free profit after transaction costs.
• Since the flow of a baseball game has natural breaks to it, and player activity is characteristically distinguishable individually, the sport lends itself to easy record-keeping and thus both compiling and compiling statistics.
• GM maize has also caused controversy with respect to possible health effects, impact on other insects and impact on other plants via gene flow.
• They carry free, calm surface flow under atmospheric pressure, and can be thought of as artificial rivers.
• Coronary artery disease (CAD), also called coronary heart disease (CHD), or ischemic heart disease (IHD), is a type of heart disease involving the reduction of blood flow to the cardiac muscle due to build-up of atherosclerotic plaque in the arteries of the heart.
• An electric current is a flow of charged particles, such as electrons or ions, moving through an electrical conductor or space.
• Electrons have a negative electrical charge, so the movement of electrons is opposite to that of the conventional current flow.
• The Great Belt Fixed Link (opened in 1997) connecting the islands of Zealand and Funen and the New Little Belt Bridge (opened in 1970) connecting Funen and Jutland greatly improved the traffic flow across the country on both motorways and rail.
• They were the first type of high vacuum pumps operating in the regime of free molecular flow, where the movement of the gas molecules can be better understood as diffusion than by conventional fluid dynamics.
• The discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis, in financial analysis, is a method used to value a security, project, company, or asset, that incorporates the time value of money.
• Examples include the mathematical models that describe the swinging of a clock pendulum, the flow of water in a pipe, the random motion of particles in the air, and the number of fish each springtime in a lake.
• It is a subfield of physics and electrical engineering which uses active devices such as transistors, diodes, and integrated circuits to control and amplify the flow of electric current and to convert it from one form to another, such as from alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) or from analog signals to digital signals.
• Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.
• In power engineering, a "bus" is any graph node of the single-line diagram at which voltage, current, power flow, or other quantities are to be evaluated.
• In physics, a fluid is a liquid, gas, or other material that may continuously move and deform (flow) under an applied shear stress, or external force.
• In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids — liquids and gases.
• They sometimes depended on grants of letters patent from a monarch or other ruler to enforce the flow of trade to their self-employed members, and to retain ownership of tools and the supply of materials, but most were regulated by the local government.
• It flows south and east through the Gangetic plain of North India, receiving the right-bank tributary, the Yamuna, which also rises in the western Indian Himalayas, and several left-bank tributaries from Nepal that account for the bulk of its flow.
• For instance, perfective aspect is used in referring to an event conceived as bounded and unitary, without reference to any flow of time during the event ("I helped him").
• It takes in water at one "hydraulic head" (pressure) and flow rate, and outputs water at a higher hydraulic head and lower flow rate.

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