Flow may refer to:

Science and technology

Fluid flow In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids— liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including ''aerodynamics'' (the study of air and other gases in motion) an ...

, the motion of a gas or liquid *

Flow (geomorphology) Mass wasting, also known as mass movement, is a general term for the movement of rock or soil down slopes under the force of gravity. It differs from other processes of erosion in that the debris transported by mass wasting is not entrained in ...

, a type of mass wasting or slope movement in geomorphology *

Flow (mathematics) In mathematics, a flow formalizes the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid. Flows are ubiquitous in science, including engineering and physics. The notion of flow is basic to the study of ordinary differential equations. Informally, a f ...

, a group action of the real numbers on a set *

Flow (psychology) In positive psychology, a flow state, also known colloquially as being in the zone, is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process ...

, a mental state of being fully immersed and focused * Flow, a spacecraft of NASA's

GRAIL The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) was an American lunar science mission in NASA's Discovery Program which used high-quality gravitational field mapping of the Moon to determine its interior structure. The two small spacecraf ...

program

Computing

Flow network In graph theory, a flow network (also known as a transportation network) is a directed graph where each edge has a capacity and each edge receives a flow. The amount of flow on an edge cannot exceed the capacity of the edge. Often in operations res ...

, graph-theoretic version of a mathematical flow *

Flow analysis Flow may refer to: Science and technology * Fluid flow, the motion of a gas or liquid * Flow (geomorphology), a type of mass wasting or slope movement in geomorphology * Flow (mathematics), a group action of the real numbers on a set * Flow (psy ...

Calligra Flow Kivio is free flowcharting and diagramming software that is a part of KOffice, integrated Graphic art software, graphic art and office suite by KDE. Features * Scriptable stencils using Python (programming language), Python. * Support for Dia ( ...

, free diagramming software *

Dataflow In computing, dataflow is a broad concept, which has various meanings depending on the application and context. In the context of software architecture, data flow relates to stream processing or reactive programming. Software architecture Dataf ...

, a broad concept in computer systems with many different meanings *

Microsoft Flow Microsoft Power Automate, formerly known as Microsoft Flow until November 2019, is an iPaaS platform by Microsoft for automation of recurring tasks. It is part of the Microsoft Power Platform line of products together with products such as Power A ...

(renamed to Power Automate in 2019), a workflow toolkit in Microsoft Dynamics *

Neos Flow Flow (formerly known as TYPO3 Flow or FLOW3) is a free and open source web application framework written in PHP. The first final version was released on October 20, 2011. It was primarily designed as a basis for the content management system Neo ...

, a free and open source web application framework written in PHP * webMethods Flow, a graphical programming language *

FLOW (programming language) FLOW is an educational programming language designed by Jef Raskin in 1970 and implemented on several minicomputers in the early 1970s. The goal of the language is to make it easy to explore algorithms through a highly interactive environment. T ...

, an educational programming language from the 1970s *

Flow (web browser) Flow is a web browser with a proprietary browser engine that claims to "dramatically improve rendering performance". Its JavaScript engine is the SpiderMonkey component of Firefox. Flow is developed by the Ekioh company, which has made simpler ...

, a web browser with a proprietary rendering engine

Arts, entertainment and media

* ''Flow'' (journal), an online journal of television and media studies * ''Flow'' (video game) * Flow (comics), a fictional character in the International Ultramarine Corps * Flow 93.5, the Canadian radio station CFXJ-FM * Flow FM (Australia), a radio station

Film and television

Flow (television) In television programming, flow is how channels and networks try to hold their audience from program to program, or from one segment of a program to another. Thus, it is the ''flow'' of television material from one element to the next. The term is ...

, the sequencing of TV material from one element to the next *

Flow TV Ripe Digital Entertainment (RDE) was an on-demand digital entertainment company with video on demand components on several platforms. RDE was founded by CEO Ryan Magnussen. Networks Ripe's 'networks', which consisted of Ripe TV, Octane TV and F ...

, a network of Ripe Digital Entertainment * '' Flow: For Love of Water'', a 2008 documentary film * ''Flow'' (1996 film), a 1996 film by Quentin Lee * ''Flow'' (2014 film), also known as ''Ækte vare'', 2014 film by Fenar Ahmad

Music

Flow (rapping) Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular". It is performed or chanted, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The ...

, the rhythms and rhymes of a hip-hop song's lyrics and how they interact *

Flow (American band) Flow (stylised as FLOW) is an American New Age music group consisting of pianist/vocalist Fiona Joy from Australia, guitarist Lawrence Blatt, trumpeter and flugelhornist Jeff Oster, and guitarist Will Ackerman, all from the United States. The ban ...

, a new age band *

Flow G Archie Basilio dela Cruz (born August 15, 1996), known professionally as Flow G, is a Filipino rapper, singer-songwriter, and member of the Filipino hip-hop collective Ex Battalion. Career On January 17, 2020, Gloc-9 released a collaborativ ...

, Filipino rapper and songwriter *

Flow (Japanese band) Flow (styled as FLOW) is a Japanese rock band formed in 1998 as a five-piece band made up of two vocalists, a drummer, a bassist, and a guitarist. They are signed to Sacra Music. As of November 2022, the band has released 39 singles, 2 collaboratio ...

, a rock group *

Flow (rapper) Widner DeGruy, also known by his stage name Flow, is an American rapper from New Orleans, Louisiana. He began his music career with hip hop group, The Flamez and is the CEO of Flame Gang Music. In 2012, he signed to Lil Wayne's label Young Money ...

(Widner DeGruy, born 1991) * ''Flow'' (Terence Blanchard album), 2005 * ''Flow'' (Conception album), 1997 * ''Flow'' (Foetus album), 2001 * ''

The Flow ''The Flow'' is an album by Chris Leslie released in 1997. This album is mostly instrumental. Although Chris Leslie is best known for his fiddle playing in Fairport Convention, these cuts sound nothing like Fairport or any of his other prior mu ...

'', a 1997 album by Chris Leslie * "Flow", a song by Cage the Elephant from the 2011 album ''

Thank You, Happy Birthday ''Thank You Happy Birthday'' is the second studio album by American rock band Cage the Elephant. It was released on January 11, 2011 to positive critical reception. The album was produced by Jay Joyce, who worked in the same capacity on the band's ...

'' * "Flow", a song by Sade from the 2000 album ''

Lovers Rock Lovers' rock is a style of reggae music noted for its romantic sound and content. While love songs had been an important part of reggae since the late 1960s, the style was given a greater focus and a name in London in the mid-1970s.Larkin, Col ...

'' * "Flow", a song by

Transister Transister was a British-American alternative rock band formed in late 1995 in Los Angeles. Despite only having released one album to moderate sales, their work has been featured on a number of film soundtracks. The band was fronted by Keely H ...

from the 1998 album ''Transister''

Other uses

Flow (brand) FLOW is one of many trade names of the Caribbean former telecommunications Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC), now known as Flow used to market cable television, internet, telephone, and wireless services provided by the company. Flow also re ...

, a Caribbean telecommunications provider *

Flow (policy debate) In policy debate, Lincoln-Douglas debate, and public forum debate, the flow (flowing in verb form) is the name given to a specialized form of shorthand which debaters use to keep track of all of the arguments in the round. It incorporates spe ...

, a form of note-taking in policy debate and public forum debate *

Flow (real estate company) Flow is an American residential real-estate company founded by the former CEO of WeWork Adam Neumann and funded by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company hopes to address some aspects of the United States housing shortage throu ...

, an American residential real estate company *

FLOW (Belgium) FLOW is a Belgian national health care network, meant for health care providers and patients. It is an acronym which stands for ''Facilities'' (services and related infrastructure), ''Legal implementation'' (the telex files), ''Organisations'' (l ...