Flag (disambiguation)

A flag 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 and sequels
• Jack Flag, 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), 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, 2019
• "Flags", a song by the Cat Empire, a pre-order bonus track from Rising with the Sun

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), in film and photography, a device used to block light
• The Flag (novel), a 1965 novel by Robert Shaw
• Karogs, 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 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 or native flag, an Australian plant genus resembling the genus Iris

Other uses in biology and medicine

• FLAG (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy regimen
• FLAG-tag, a unique epitope added to proteins in biochemistry
• Flagging (botany), a growth pattern that reduces or eliminates growth on one side of a tree or other plant

Computing

• Flag (computing), 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), a CPU register on x86 systems
• Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG), an undersea fiber optic cable
• To alert admins on a message board that a post needs to be moderated

Industry

• F.L.A.G. (Fabbrica Ligure Automobili Genova), an Italian automobile manufacturer c. 1906
• FLAGS (Far North Liquids and Associated Gas System), a natural gas pipeline in the North Sea
• Flag and pennant patterns, in technical analysis

Mathematics

• Flag (geometry), part of a polygon, polyhedron or higher polytope
• Flag (linear algebra), an increasing sequence of subspaces of a vector space

Physical science and technology

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

Politics and government

• The Free Legal Assistance Group or FLAG, the largest firm of Filipino human rights lawyers
• Flag state, the state under whose laws a merchant ship is registered or licensed
• Flag Boshielo, 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 used at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada
• Penalty flag 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.

Other uses

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

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Flag
• Checkered Flag (disambiguation)
• Flagg (disambiguation)
• Flagger (disambiguation)
• Flagging (disambiguation)
• Red flag (disambiguation)
• White flag (disambiguation)