0 in rugby, one of two attacking players who hold onto the sides of a scrum (= a group of attacking players from each team who come together with their heads down and arms joined, and push against each other) :
The New Zealand-born flanker was declared fit late on Monday.
The replacement flanker scored Gloucester's second try.
He is a quarterback turned flanker.
As a flanker, he will frequently be put in motion and will also line up in the slot.
The contrast of the target varied widely from 2 to 80% and that of flankers was set high at either 50 or 80%.
Reduced facilitation effect of collinear flankers on contrast detection reveals impaired lateral connectivity in the visual cortex of schizophrenia patients.
We found that flankers interfered with target selection only when targets and flankers differed on the goal-relevant dimension.
First, flankers did have a significant effect on target threshold in the inhibitory range which suggests that sufficient attentional resources were allocated.
