Flapping

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æpɪŋ

Adjective

Flapping (not comparable)

1. That flaps or flap.

   flapping sails

Noun

Flapping (countable and uncountable; plural Flappings)

1. The action of the verb to flap.
2. (phonology) A phonological process found in many dialects of English, especially American English and Canadian English, by which intervocalic /t/ and /d/ surface as the alveolar flap /ɾ/ before an unstressed syllable, so that words such as "metal" and "medal" are pronounced similarly or identically.

Verb

flapping

1. Present participle of flap.
2. (networking) A description of a network interface or device that changes rapidly and repeatedly between online and offline states (compare thrashing).

   That faulty network card appears to be flapping.

   • Excessive Restarts and Flapping - User Guide for Device Fault Manager 1.1, cisco.com [1]

     "This topic describes how DFM concludes that a system is excessively restarting or that a network adapter is flapping."

See also

• Wikipedia article on flapping