flange

[ flanj ]
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noun
  1. a projecting rim, collar, or ring on a shaft, pipe, machine housing, etc., cast or formed to give additional strength, stiffness, or supporting area, or to provide a place for the attachment of other objects.

  2. a broad ridge or pair of ridges projecting from the edge of a rolled metal shape generally at right angles, in order to strengthen or stiffen it.

  1. a ring or collar, usually provided with holes for bolts, and screwed or welded over the end of a tube or pipe to permit other objects to be attached to it.

  2. (in plumbing) a plate or flat ring bolted to the flange at the end of a length of pipe to close the end or to connect it with the flange of another such length: blind flange; spectacle flange.

verb (used without object),flanged, flang·ing.
  1. to project like, or take the form of, a flange.

Origin of flange

1
1425–75; late Middle English flaunche side charge (on shield face) <Middle French flanche, feminine of flancflank

Other words from flange

  • flangeless, adjective
  • flanger, noun
  • un·flanged, adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for flange

flange

/ (flændʒ) /


noun
  1. a projecting disc-shaped collar or rim on an object for locating or strengthening it or for attaching it to another object

  2. a flat outer face of a rolled-steel joist, esp of an I- or H-beam

  1. a tool for forming a flange

verb
  1. (tr) to attach or provide (a component) with a flange

  2. (intr) to take the form of a flange

Origin of flange

1
C17: probably changed from earlier flaunche curved segment at side of a heraldic field, from French flanc flank

Derived forms of flange

  • flanged, adjective
  • flangeless, adjective
  • flanger, noun

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