flip-flop in Finnish

(US) An instance of flip-flopping, of repeatedly changing one's stated opinion about a matter. [from 19th c.]

(computing, electronics) A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable and an unstable state (switching from one to the other and back again in response to a trigger), and which is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory. [from 20th c.]