Flip-flop (disambiguation)

Flip-flop may refer to:

• Any period-2 oscillator.
• Any period 2 oscillator whose two phases are mirror images of one another (see kinetic symmetry). Examples include by flops and why bother.
• Any period 2 oscillator in which all rotor cells die from underpopulation. Examples include clock, fox, and the barberpoles.

In the latter sense it contrasts with on-off, which is a period 2 oscillator whose rotor cells die due to overpopulation. The term has also been used even more specifically to refer to phoenix 1.

External links

• Flip-flop at the Life Lexicon