Comments on: Flipping out over ‘Flip-Flop’ http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=169 A Blog about Words and Language(s) from alphaDictionary.com Tue, 21 May 2013 19:53:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 By: rbeard http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=169&cpage=1#comment-65001 rbeard Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:26:11 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=169#comment-65001 Whoops! You're right. I wasn't thinking electronics, just shoes and politics. Thanks for the note. --DG Whoops! You’re right. I wasn’t thinking electronics, just shoes and politics.

Thanks for the note.

–DG

]]> By: Timothy Knox http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=169&cpage=1#comment-64503 Timothy Knox Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:54:53 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=169#comment-64503 "It isn’t a serious word; you don’t read it in scholarly journals." I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree with you on this. A "flip-flop" is a technical term in the electronic circuitry world, for a bistable multivibrator. You can see the entry at wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flop_%28electronics%29 for further and better particulars. You can see it used in a scholarly journal in, for example http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel4/6127/16377/00757399.pdf?arnumber=757399 Hope that helps. :-) “It isn’t a serious word; you don’t read it in scholarly journals.” I’m afraid I’m going to have to disagree with you on this. A “flip-flop” is a technical term in the electronic circuitry world, for a bistable multivibrator. You can see the entry at wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flop_%28electronics%29 for further and better particulars. You can see it used in a scholarly journal in, for example http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel4/6127/16377/00757399.pdf?arnumber=757399

Hope that helps. :-)

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