flag A flag is a piece of textile, fabric (most often rectangular) with distinctive colours and design. It is used as a symbol, a signalling device, or for decoration. The term ''flag'' is also used to refer to the graphic design employed, and fla ...

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 River, a river in northern Wisconsin * Flag (crater), a small crater in the Descartes Highlands of the Moon

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

* Captain Flag, American superhero *Foundation for Law And Government (FLAG), a fictional law-enforcement foundation in the TV series ''

Knight Rider ''Knight Rider'' is an American media franchise, entertainment franchise created by Glen A. Larson. The core of ''Knight Rider'' is its three-television series: the original ''Knight Rider (1982 TV series), Knight Rider'' (1982–1986) and sequ ...

'' and sequels *

Jack Flag Jack Flag (Jack Harrison) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He has occasionally appeared alongside Captain America and has been a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy (2008 team), Guardians of the Gal ...

, superhero appearing in American comic books * The Flag (Ace Comics), comicbook superhero

Film and television

* ''Flag'' (TV series), 2006 Japanese mecha-genre anime television series by Kazuo Terada * '' The Flag: A Story Inspired by the Tradition of Betsy Ross'', a 1927 silent short film

Music

Flag (note) In music notation, a note value indicates the relative duration of a note, using the texture or shape of the '' notehead'', the presence or absence of a ''stem'', and the presence or absence of ''flags/ beams/hooks/tails''. Unmodified note value ...

, 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 Everyday life, daily life or routine life comprises the ways in which people typically act, think, and feel on a daily basis. Everyday life may be described as mundane, routine, natural, habitual, or Normality (behavior), normal. Human diurna ...

'', 2019 * "Flags", a song by the Cat Empire, a pre-order bonus track from ''

Rising with the Sun ''Rising with the Sun'' is the seventh studio album by Melbourne band the Cat Empire. It was produced by Jan Skubiszewski and released on 4 March 2016 through Two Shoes Records. The first single was "Qué Será Ahora", followed by "Wolves" and ...

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) A flag is a device used in lighting for motion picture and still photography to block light. It can be used to cast a shadow, provide negative fill, or protect the lens from a flare. Its usage is generally dictated by the director of photogr ...

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

Karogs ''Karogs'' ("Flag") was a monthly literary magazine which was published in Latvia in the period between 1940 and 2010. Published by the Soviet Latvian Writers’ Union during the Communist period it was a semi-official publication. History and p ...

'', The Flag in Latvian, a literary magazine (1940–2010)

Biology and medicine

Plants

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

Acorus calamus ''Acorus calamus'' (also called sweet flag, sway or muskrat root, among many other common names) is a species of flowering plant with psychoactive chemicals. It is a tall wetland monocot of the family Acoraceae, in the genus ''Acorus.'' Alth ...

'' 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 ''Patersonia'', is a genus of plants whose species are commonly known as native iris or native flag and are native to areas from Malesia to Australia. Description They are perennials with basal leaves growing from a woody rhizome that in some sp ...

'' or native flag, an Australian plant genus resembling the genus ''Iris''

Other uses in biology and medicine

FLAG (chemotherapy) FLAG is a chemotherapy regimen used for relapsed and refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The acronym incorporates the three primary ingredients of the regimen: # Fludarabine: an antimetabolite that, while not active toward AML, increases for ...

, a chemotherapy regimen *

FLAG-tag FLAG-tag, or FLAG octapeptide, or FLAG epitope, is a peptide protein tag that can be added to a protein using recombinant DNA technology, having the sequence DYKDDDDK (where D=aspartic acid, Y=tyrosine, and K=lysine). It is one of the most specifi ...

, a unique epitope added to proteins in biochemistry *

Flagging (botany) ''Krummholz'' (, "crooked, bent, twisted" and ''Holz'', "wood") — also called ''knieholz'' ("knee timber") — is a type of stunted, deformed vegetation encountered in the subarctic and subalpine tree line landscapes, shaped by continual e ...

, a growth pattern that reduces or eliminates growth on one side of a tree or other plant

Computing

Flag (computing) In computer programming, flag can refer to one or more bits that are used to store a binary numeral system, binary value or a Boolean variable for signaling special Source code, code conditions, such as file empty or full queue statuses. Flags ma ...

, 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) The FLAGS register is the status register that contains the current state of an x86 CPU. The size and meanings of the flag bits are architecture dependent. It usually reflects the result of arithmetic operations as well as information about restr ...

, a CPU register on x86 systems *

Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) is a fibre optic mostly-submarine communications cable that connects the United Kingdom, Japan, India, and many places in between. The cable is operated by Global Cloud Xchange, a subsidiary of RCOM. ...

(FLAG), an undersea fiber optic cable * To alert admins on a message board that a post needs to be

moderated Moderation is the process or trait of eliminating, lessening, or avoiding extremes. It is used to ensure normality throughout the medium on which it is being conducted. Common uses of moderation include: * A way of life emphasizing perfect amo ...

Industry

* F.L.A.G. (''Fabbrica Ligure Automobili Genova''), an Italian automobile manufacturer 1906 *

FLAGS A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular) with distinctive colours and design. It is used as a symbol, a signalling device, or for decoration. The term ''flag'' is also used to refer to the graphic design employed, and flags have ...

(Far North Liquids and Associated Gas System), a natural gas pipeline in the North Sea *

Flag and pennant patterns The flag and pennant patterns are commonly found patterns in the price charts of financially traded assets (stock Stocks (also capital stock, or sometimes interchangeably, shares) consist of all the Share (finance), shares by which owner ...

, in technical analysis

Mathematics

Flag (geometry) In (polyhedral) geometry, a flag is a sequence of Face (geometry), faces of a Abstract polytope, polytope, each contained in the next, with exactly one face from each dimension. More formally, a flag of an -polytope is a set such that and ...

, part of a polygon, polyhedron or higher polytope *

Flag (linear algebra) In mathematics, particularly in linear algebra, a flag is an increasing sequence of subspaces of a finite-dimensional vector space ''V''. Here "increasing" means each is a proper subspace of the next (see filtration): :\ = V_0 \sub V_1 \sub V_2 \s ...

, an increasing sequence of subspaces of a vector space

Physical science and technology

Flagstone Flagstone (flag) is a generic flat Rock (geology), stone, sometimes cut in regular rectangular or square shape and usually used for Sidewalk, paving slabs or walkways, patios, flooring, fences and roofing. It may be used for memorials, headstone ...

or flag, a large flat stone used for paving, fencing, or roofing

Politics and government

* The

Free Legal Assistance Group The Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) is a nationwide organization of human rights lawyers in the Philippines. It was founded in 1974 by Senate of the Philippines, Sen. Jose W. Diokno, Lorenzo Tañada, J.B.L. Reyes, and Joker Arroyo during th ...

or FLAG, the largest firm of Filipino human rights lawyers *

Flag state The flag state of a merchant vessel is the jurisdiction under whose laws the vessel is Ship registration, registered or licensed, and is deemed the nationality of the vessel. A merchant vessel must be registered and can only be registered in one j ...

, the state under whose laws a merchant ship is registered or licensed *

Flag Boshielo Flag Marutle Boshielo (born 1920; disappeared 20 August 1970) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, trade unionist, and communist. He went into exile with the African National Congress (ANC) after the party was banned in 1960 and served as ...

, Missing South African anti-apartheid activist, trade unionist, and communist

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 Casino chips (also known as poker chips, gaming tokens, or checks/cheques) are small discs used as currency in casinos. Larger, rectangular gaming plaques may be used for high-stakes games. Poker chips are also widely used as play money in cas ...

used at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada *

Penalty flag The penalty flag (or just "flag"), often called a penalty marker (or just "marker"), is a yellow cloth used in several field sports including American football, Canadian football, and lacrosse by game officials to identify and sometimes mark th ...

or flag, a yellow cloth used by game officials in some field sports to indicate an infraction * The prize for being the premier of the

Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition ...

Other uses

* Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization, commonly referred to in Scientology as "Flag," in Clearwater, Florida, U.S.