flange

Meanings

1. An external or internal rib or rim, used either to add strength or to hold something in place.
2. The projecting edge of a rigid or semi-rigid component.
3. An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.
4. The vulva.
5. A group of baboons.
6. The electronic sound distortion produced by a flanger.

1. To be bent into a flange.
2. To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange; to bend (esp. sheet metal) in the form of a flange.
3. To mix two copies of together, one delayed by a very short, slowly varying time.

Etymology

From dialectal English flange (“to project”), flanch (“a projection”), from Middle French flanche, from Old French flanche (“flank, side”), from Frankish *hlanku (“bend, curve; side, flank”). See flank. As a term for a group of baboons, it was popularized in the comedy TV series Not the Nine O'Clock News.