flange

Meanings

Noun

• An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.
• The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component.
• An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.
• A vulva.
• The collective noun for a group of baboons.
• The electronic sound distortion produced by a flanger.

Verb

• To be bent into a flange.
• To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange.
• To mix two copies of together, one delayed by a very short, slowly varying time.

Related

Similar words

• troop, congress

Origin

• From dialectal English flange, flanch, from Old French flanche ("flank, side"). See flank. As a term for a group of baboons, it was popularized in the comedy TV series Not the Nine O'Clock News.