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Yes, a flip flop is a type of electronic logic circut. It is a bistable device, capable of being in one state or the other, "remembering" that state, until some signal triggers it to change state.

A flip flop is also a type of foot wear, but this was an electronics question. :-)>

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A flip-flop is a bistable multivibrator circuit, in other words it is stable in either the true or false state. They can be used for data storage, counting, scaling, and many other uses.

The first type of flip-flop was invented by William Henry Eccles and Frank Wilfred Jordan in 1918, for which they were granted patent GB148582 in 1920. They called it the Trigger Circuit, but when users connected the output to a speaker to verify correct operation if the Trigger Circuit was switching slowly the sound from the speaker was "flip, flop, flip, flop,..." which gradually became the more common name.

See my photo in my profile for the schematic of their original Trigger Circuit (flip-flop) clipped from the actual patent document.

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The term flip flop in electronics refers to a kind of gated latch. A flip flop is triggered by the edge of the clock signal so it is sometimes called edge-triggered.

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