'Flow' may refer to:
★ Flow (physics)is the
flux times the area. This is the rate at which something travels through a given cross section.
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fluid mechanics, the word flow is often used to mean a complete description of the motion of a fluid. See also
volumetric flow rate
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Flow (psychology), the feeling of complete and energized focus in an activity, with a high level of enjoyment and fulfillment
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flow chemistry, perform chemical reactions in microchannels
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★ In circulatory physiology, the word flow (e.g. of blood or lymph fluid) is commonly used as shorthand for regional flow, i.e., flow standardized to the volume or mass of a region of tissue under study (SI units: mL/s/mL or mL/s/g)
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Flow cytometry, abbreviated "flow", in certain laboratory applications, is a technique for counting, examining and sorting microscopic particles suspended in a stream of fluid
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Environmental flow, in ecology, the discharge or level of water necessary in a river or water source to sustain a healthly ecosystem
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Dataflow and
workflow, terms that describe the
flow of data in a mostly non-linear succession of computing steps
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Flow (mathematics), the one-dimensional (continuous, differentiable) action of a group, usually arising in the solution of differential equations
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★ Examples include
geodesic flow,
Hamiltonian flow,
Ricci flow,
mean curvature flow and
Anosov flow
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Network flow, an assignment of flow to the edges of a directed graph in graph theory
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Flow (television), in television studies and programming, the sequence of television material from one element to the next
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Flow (radio), a radio station based in Toronto, Canada also known as Flow 93.5 FM(CFXJ-FM).
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''Flow'' (journal), an online journal of television and media studies
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FLOW (band), a J-Rock group
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Flow binding system, abbreviated "flow", a US based manufacturer of proprietary snowboard bindings
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flOw, originally an Adobe Flash game, later remade into a PlayStation 3 game
★ FLOW - The Israeli Flying Discs
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