Flag (disambiguation)

A flag is a colored cloth with a specified meaning.

Flag(s) or The Flag(s) may also refer to:

Places

Flag, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
Flag, Missouri, a ghost town
Flag (crater), a small crater in the Descartes Highlands of the Moon

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

Foundation for Law And Government (FLAG), a fictional law-enforcement foundation in the TV series Knight Rider and sequels

Film and television

Flag (TV series), a 2006 series by Kazuo Terada
The Flag: A Story Inspired by the Tradition of Betsy Ross, a 1927 silent short film

Music

Flag (note), a part of a note value in music notation
Flag, a band formed by former members of Black Flag
Flag (James Taylor album), 1979
Flag (Yello album), 1988
Flags (Brooke Fraser album), 2010
Flags (Moraz and Bruford album), 1985
The Flag (album), by Rick James, 1986
”Flags”, a song by Coldplay from Everyday Life, 2019

Paintings

Flag (painting), a 1954/1955 painting by American artist Jasper Johns
The Flag (O'Keeffe painting), a 1918 painting by Georgia O'Keeffe

Other media

Flag (lighting), in film and photography, a device used to block light
The Flag (novel), a 1965 novel by Robert Shaw

Biology and medicine

Plants

Flag is the common name of several genera or species of flowering plants:

Acorus calamus or sweet flag, found in many countries
Flag iris or just "flag", various species in North America
Libertia pulchella, or pretty grass-flag, a species native to New Guinea, New Zealand and Australia
Patersonia or native flag, an Australian plant genus resembling the genus Iris

Other uses in biology and medicine

FLAG (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy regimen
FLAG-tag, a unique epitope added to proteins in biochemistry
Flagging (botany), a growth pattern that reduces or eliminates growth on one side of a tree or other plant

Computing

Flag (computing), a true/false, on/off or open/closed indicator (Boolean variable)
Command line flag, a modifier for a command line interface command
FLAGS register (computing), a CPU register on x86 systems
Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG), an undersea fiber optic cable
To alert admins on a message board that a post need to be moderated

Sports

The prize for being the premier of the Australian Football League.

Mathematics

Flag (geometry), part of a polygon, polyhedron or higher polytope
Flag (linear algebra), an increasing sequence of subspaces of a vector space

Sports and games

Flag, a baton used in the sporting event Beach Flags
Flag, a type of bet offered by UK bookmakers
Flag, a casino token used at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada
Penalty flag or flag, a yellow cloth used by game officials in some field sports to indicate an infraction

Other uses

F.L.A.G. (Fabbrica Ligure Automobili Genova), an Italian automobile manufacturer c. 1906
Flag and pennant patterns, in technical analysis
Flag Land Base, Fort Harrison Hotel, a Church of Scientology facility, Clearwater, Florida, U.S.
Flag state, the state under whose laws a merchant ship is registered or licensed
Flagstone or flag, a large flat stone used for paving, fencing, or roofing
Flemish Aerospace Group (FLAG), an industry trade organization
FLAGS (Far North Liquids and Associated Gas System), a natural gas pipeline in the North Sea
The Free Legal Assistance Group, a group of Filipino human rights lawyers

gollark: Or mpmath.

gollark: If you wish for programming you might as well use python and numpy.

gollark: Well, no, it's only a programming environment through eldritch horrors.

gollark: My friend's graphing calculator has micropython, but my phone has notmicropython.

gollark: And hardware buttons, I suppose.