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flange (iou)



flange noun & verb. L17.
[Origin uncertain: rel. to FLANCH noun1 & verb.]
A. noun.
A part that widens out (now only in a vein of ore). L17.
A projecting flat rim, collar, or rib, serving esp. for strengthening, attachment, or (on a wheel) maintaining position on a rail. Also, a rim or fan standing out from the main part of a natural object. M18.
blank flange: see BLANK adjective.
M. Kingsley The brown water..striking a ridge of higher rock..flew up in a lovely flange. J. Masters The wheels' flanges ground against the inside of the rail.
b. verb. [Cf. Old French flangir bend.]
verb trans. Provide with a flange. Chiefly as flanged ppl adjective. L18.
verb intrans. Widen out or out. E19.
verb intrans. Alter a sound recording by removing sound of a particular but varying frequency (orig. by pressing alternately on the flanges of the tape reels playing two copies of the recording simultaneously, now by means of a flanger). Usu. as flanging verbal noun. L20.
flangeless adjective E20.
flanger noun (a) US a vertical scraper for clearing snow from railway tracks to allow room for the wheel-flanges; (b) a device that alters a sound signal by introducing a cyclically varying phase shift into one of two identical copies of the signal and recombining them: L19.