flapping (suomeksi)

Määritelmät:

That flaps or flap.
An instance where one flapVerb, flaps.
(lb, en, phonology) A phonological process found in many dialects of English, especially American English and Canadian English, by which intervocalic (IPAchar, /t/) and (IPAchar, /d/) surface as the alveolar flap (IPAchar, /ɾ/) before an unstressed syllable, so that words such as "metal" and "medal" are pronounced similarly or identically.
(lb, en, computing, telecommunications) The situation where a resource, a network destination, etc., is advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.