Flag

/ˈflæɡ/ · noun

Meaning

(countable) A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
2. The design that could be placed on a flag, typically a rectangular graphic that is used to represent an entity (like a country, organisation or group of people) or an idea.
3. (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
4. (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
5. The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
6. (computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a Boolean true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.
7. (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
8. (aviation) A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.

Example Sentences

The vote in the Bundestag (parliament) on Thursday makes defiling foreign flags equal to the crime of defiling the German flag. […] The new law also applies to acts of defilement besides burning, such as publicly ripping a flag up.

The flag of France has three vertical stripes.

This will be used as a help message if the user passes in the --help flag, like so: […]

I was shooting an IFR approach down the San Francisco slot, when all of a sudden the ILS flag popped up.

[…] and then the OFF flag popped up and the needle went dead.

A flag of P is a sequence (F₀, F₁, ..., Fₘ) of faces of P such that dim Fᵢ = i for each i and Fᵢ is a side of Fᵢ₊₁ for each i < m.[…]A regular polytope in X is a polytope P in X whose group of symmetries in <P> acts transitively on its flags.

We call P (combinatorially) regular if its automorphism group Γ(P) is transitive on its flags.

Roughly speaking, chiral polytopes have half as many possible automorphisms as have regular polytopes. More technically, the n-polytope P is chiral if it has two orbits of flags under its group Γ(P), with adjacent flags in different orbits.

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• flags
• flagging
• flagged

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