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Flow may refer to:

Science and technology

Relating to the movement of material

• Fluid dynamics, or fluid flow, the motion of a gas or liquid
• Environmental flow, the amount of water necessary in a watercourse to maintain a healthy ecosystem
• Flow chemistry, a chemical reaction run in a continuous stream
• Flow cytometry, a technique for counting, examining and sorting microscopic particles suspended in a stream of fluid
• Mass flow rate, the movement of mass per time
• Traffic flow, the study of interactions between vehicles, drivers, and infrastructure
• Volumetric flow rate, the volume of a fluid which passes through a given surface per unit of time

Mathematics

• Flow (mathematics), a variable that depends on time
• Flow network, a directed graph where each edge receives a flow
• Signal-flow graph, a graphical means of showing the relations among the variables of a set of linear algebraic relations

Computer science

• Control flow, or flow of control of an imperative or functional computer program
• Control flow diagram, describing a business process or computer program
• Dataflow, computing term related to the flow of messages between software components
• Data flow diagram, describing the flow of messages between software components
• Traffic flow (computer networking), flow of packets from a source to a destination
• Flow to HDL, tools and methods convert flow-based system design into a HDL
• WebMethods Flow, a graphical programming language used in the webMethods Integration Server

Other uses in science and technology

• Flow (psychology), a psychological state where a person is fully immersed and focused on an activity or task
• Flow diagram, with multiple meanings
• Flowchart, a visual representation of procedural programming
• Functional flow block diagram, in systems engineering
• Signal flow, in wave propagation, the path a signal takes from source to output
• Stock and flow, in economics and finance, a quantity measured over an interval of time
• Workflow, a repeatable pattern of activity, usually involving multiple tasks with a specific set of outcomes

Entertainment

• Flow (television), the sequencing of TV material from one element to the next
• Flow (album), an album by Foetus
• Flow (band), a J-rock group
• Flow (journal), an online journal of television and media studies
• Flow: For Love of Water, a documentary
• Flow (rapping), the delivery of a rap music vocal performance, defined by prosody, cadence, and speed
• flOw, a video game by ThatGameCompany
• CFXJ-FM, known as "The New FLOW 93.5", a radio station in Toronto, Canada

Other

• Flow (policy debate), a form of note-taking in policy debate
• Flow binding system, snowboard bindings

See also

• All pages beginning with "Flow"
• All pages with titles containing "Flow"
• Flo (disambiguation)
• Stream (disambiguation)

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flOw
Developer(s)	Adobe Flash thatgamecompany PlayStation Portable SuperVillain Studios
Publisher(s)	Adobe Flash thatgamecompany PlayStation Network, PlayStation Portable Sony Computer Entertainment
Latest version	44
Release date(s)	Adobe Flash  April 14, 2006 PlayStation Network  February 22, 2007  May 11, 2007  March 23, 2007 PlayStation Portable  March 6, 2008  April 24, 2008  April 24, 2008
Genre(s)	Simulation
System(s)	Adobe Flash, Windows, Mac OS, PlayStation Network, PlayStation Portable
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Everyone
Website	Flash official site PSN official site

Flow (styled as flOw') is a Flash game created by Jenova Chen and Nicholas Clark. The game involves the player guiding a tiny, aquatic worm-like microorganism through various depths of the ocean to consume other organisms and to evolve their organism as the player advances. Flow is part of Chen's thesis research at the University of Southern California's Interactive Media Division and includes an embedded design of DDA (dynamic difficulty adjustment) which allows players with different skill levels to intuitively customize their experience and enjoy the game at their own desired pace. Within the first two weeks following its release, Flow attracted approximately 350,000 downloads. By the time the thatgamecompany website launched, it had increased to more than 600,000 downloads. The latest version, as of February 2008, was released on April 14, 2006.

A PlayStation Network version was announced in May 2006. This version was developed by thatgamecompany and released in America on February 22, 2007. A version for the PlayStation Portable developed by SuperVillain Studios was released in the UK in March 2008.

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