Flake or Flakes may refer to:

People

* Christian "Flake" Lorenz, German musician and member of the band Rammstein * Gisa Flake (born 1985), German actress and singer * Jake Flake, American politician *

Jeff Flake Jeffry Lane Flake (born December 31, 1962) is an American politician and diplomat who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 2013 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the United States House of Repr ...

(born 1962), American politician *

Floyd H. Flake Floyd Harold Flake (born January 30, 1945) is an American businessman, minister, and former politician who was the senior pastor of the 23,000-member Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal Cathedral in Jamaica, Queens, New York, and the 18th ...

(born 1945), A.M.E. minister, university administrator, former U.S. representative *

Magdalene Schauss-Flake Magdalene Schauss-Flake (25 July 1921 – 24 September 2008) was a German composer and organist who gave recitals throughout the United States and Europe. Biography Schauss-Flake was born in Essen, where she studied church music at the Folkwang Sc ...

(1921–2008), German composer and organist *

Minna Flake Margareta "Minna" Flake (née Mai; November 27, 1886 – February 12, 1958) was a German born physician and socialist who fled Germany during World War II and settled in New York City. Early life Margareta Mai was born on November 27, 1886, in W� ...

(1886–1958), German physician * Otto Flake (1880–1963), German writer

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Groups

* Flake (band), an Australian psyche/prog rock band from

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, active in the late 1960s and early 1970s * Flake, the original name of the band Flake Music, the predecessor of The Shins

Songs

* "Flake" (song), a song from the 2001 album ''Brushfire Fairytales'' by Jack Johnson * "Flake", an early song by System of a Down, see System of a Down discography * "Flakes", a song from the 1979 album ''

Sheik Yerbouti ''Sheik Yerbouti'' is a double album by American musician Frank Zappa, released in March 1979 as the first release on Zappa Records, distributed by Phonogram Inc. in the United States and Canada. The album was released in other countries by CB ...

'' by Frank Zappa * "Flakes", a song from the 2008 album '' Twenty One'' by the Mystery Jets

Other arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Flakes'' (film), a 2007 film with Aaron Stanford and Zooey Deschanel * ''Flakes'' (manga), a manga anthology by Naoki Yamamoto

Food and food preparation

Flake (chocolate bar) Flake is a British brand of chocolate bar currently manufactured by British chocolate company Cadbury, owned by Mondelez International, consisting of thinly folded milk chocolate. The bar has a unique crumbly texture, and softens but does not mel ...

, a brand of chocolate bar manufactured by Cadbury *

Flake (fish) Flake is a term used in Australia to indicate the flesh of any of several species of shark, particularly the gummy shark. The term probably arose in the late 1920s when the large-scale commercial shark fishery off the coast of Victoria, Australia ...

, an Australian term for edible flesh of one of several species of shark * Flake, an individual popped kernel of corn *

Fish flake A fish flake is a platform built on poles and spread with boughs for drying cod on the foreshores of fishing villages and small coastal towns in Newfoundland and Nordic countries. Spelling variations for fish flake in Newfoundland include ', ...

, a platform for drying cod

Science and technology

* Flake (software), a software library for KDE * Flake tobacco, used in a

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* Flake8, a

Python Python may refer to: Snakes * Pythonidae, a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia ** ''Python'' (genus), a genus of Pythonidae found in Africa and Asia * Python (mythology), a mythical serpent Computing * Python (prog ...

wrapper for PyFlakes, pycodestyle, and Ned Batchelder's McCabe script, similar to Pylint *

Lithic flake In archaeology, a lithic flake is a "portion of rock (geology), rock removed from an objective piece by percussion or pressure,"Andrefsky, W. (2005) ''Lithics: Macroscopic Approaches to Analysis''. 2d Ed. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press and ...

, a fragment of stone found in archaeology * Nano flake, a novel shape of semiconductor nanostructure *

Snowflake A snowflake is a single ice crystal that is large enough to fall through the Earth's atmosphere as snow.Knight, C.; Knight, N. (1973). Snow crystals. Scientific American, vol. 228, no. 1, pp. 100–107.Hobbs, P.V. 1974. Ice Physics. Oxford: C ...

, a particle of snow *

Snowflake Computing Snowflake Inc. is an American cloud-based data storage company. Headquartered in Bozeman, Montana, it operates a platform that allows for data analysis and simultaneous access of data sets with minimal latency. It operates on Amazon Web Se ...

, a cloud data warehouse company *

Snowflake schema In computing, a snowflake schema or snowflake model is a Logical schema, logical arrangement of tables in a multidimensional database such that the Entity-relationship model, entity relationship diagram resembles a snowflake shape. The snowfl ...

, a logical arrangement of tables in a multidimensional database