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Flop

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Flop may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Flop (band), a defunct 1990s era pop-punk group from Seattle, Washington, US
  • Flop (film), from Argentina
  • Flop (poker), a poker term describing the first three cards dealt to the board
  • Flop!, an industrial and synthpop album by the band And One
  • Box office flop or commercial flop, in the entertainment world
  • Flop Show, an Indian TV sitcom
  • The Flop House, a film podcast

Computing and technology

  • Flip-flop (electronics), the bistable multivibrator, a circuit with two stable states
  • FLOPS, floating point operations per second in computing

Sports

  • Flop (basketball), an intentional fall to claim a foul
  • Diving (association football), intentional fall sometimes called flop in US
  • Diving (ice hockey)
  • Flop shot, in golf stroke mechanics, has a high trajectory but short travel
  • Fosbury Flop, in high jump

Business

A product that failed to solve a statistically significant problem.

Other uses

  • Flop (algebraic geometry), a birational transformation
  • Flop-transition, in the string theory of physics
  • Flophouse or flop house, a cheap transients' rooming house
  • Flopped image, a type of mirror image in photography, graphic design, and printing
  • Wheel flop, a consequence of some bicycle and motorcycle geometries

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