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flowmap

flowmap noun: a kind of diagram indicating flow through a process or system.

Noun

flowmap (plural flowmaps)

  1. A kind of diagram indicating flow through a process or system.
    • Flowmaps have a hierarchical structure in which some functional units correspond to activities (atomic operations) and others correspond to more detailed flowmaps.1994, Reid Alan Baldwin, A Discipline Independent Framework for Engineering Design, page 101
    • Flowmaps can be exponentially large if there are many alternatives. In the NELSIS system, the flow plan is fixed.1995, Sea Hawon Choi, Design Methodology in High Level Synthesis (page 67)

Forms of flowmap

pluralflowmaps

Origin of flowmap

From flow + map.

Questions about flowmap

What does flowmap mean?
Flowmap means a kind of diagram indicating flow through a process or system.
What part of speech is flowmap?
Flowmap is a noun.
What is the plural of flowmap?
The plural of flowmap is flowmaps.

Words near flowmap in the dictionary

  1. flowlessness
  2. flowlike
  3. flowline
  4. flowline trap
  5. flowlines
  6. flowmap
  7. flowmaps
  8. flowmeter
  9. flowmeters
  10. flowmetric
  11. flowmetrically

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