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Flex: Bend or decrease angle of a joint; contract a muscle.

Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA): P.L. 96-354 (September 19,1964) requires federal agencies to consider the special needs and concerns of small business entities whenever they engage in rulemaking subject to notice and comme . . . View Full Definition

Single-Lens Reflex (SLR): An SLR, or single-lens reflex, camera is named for its picture-taking mechanism. In a film SLR, the viewfinder uses a 45°-angled mirror to see through the lens; that mirror snaps out of sigh . . . View Full Definition

Vitaflex: Based on the piezoelectric properties of the human skin, vitaflex is a specialized form of manual stimulation at specific reflex points throughout the body, using the pads and nails of the f . . . View Full Definition

Normal Flex Acreage: A provision of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 requiring a mandatory 15% reduction in payment acreage. Under this provision, producers were ineligible to receive deficiency pay . . . View Full Definition

K56Flex: A technology developed by Lucent Technologies and Rockwell International for delivering data rates up to 56 Kbps over plain old telephone service (POTS). It was long believed that the maximu . . . View Full Definition

Self-Reflexivity: A program which refers back to itself or similar programs. In a genre's evolutionary pattern, the stage during which the genre turns inward and uses its own conventions for subject matter, o . . . View Full Definition

Retroflex: In linguistics, any sound produced with the tongue-tip bent or curled backward--such as the sound of the liquid . Retroflex s over time often change into the liquid and vice-versa. . . . View Full Definition

Flexible Spending Account: Some employers offer flexible spending accounts (FSA), sometimes called cafeteria plans, as part of their employee benefits package. You contribute a percentage of your pretax salary, up to . . . View Full Definition

Production Flexibility Contract: A 7-year contract covering crop years 1996-2002, authorized by the FAIR Act of 1996 between the CCC and farmers, which makes fixed income support payments in place of the previous variable t . . . View Full Definition