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flash card

flash card is the alternative form of flashcard.

Meaning of flashcard

Noun

flashcard (plural flashcards)

  1. A card used to aid rote memorization. One side of the card contains data of one kind, or a question, and the other side contains the associated response which one wants to memorize. For example, one side could contain an English word, and the other side the Spanish translation.
    • Many people use flashcards to learn languages.
    Synonyms:
    flipcard
  2. A solid-state digital memory storage format, commonly found on computers, digital cameras and cellphones.

Forms of flash card

pluralflash cards

Questions about flash card

What is flash card the alternative form of?
Flash card is the alternative form of flashcard.

Words near flash card in the dictionary

  1. flash bomb
  2. flash burn
  3. flash burner
  4. flash burners
  5. flash burns
  6. flash card
  7. flash cards
  8. flash cartridge
  9. flash crash
  10. flash crowd
  11. flash crowds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flash card (page history and authors); flashcard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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