flip-flop

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puolivoltti taaksepäin puhekieltä An instance of Verb flip-flopping, of repeatedly changing one's stated opinion about a matter. (defdate)
puhekieltä 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. (defdate)
2012, (w), Turings Cathedral'', Penguin 2013, p. 72:

Ten two-state flip-flops … were formed into ten-stage ring counters representing each decimal digit in the ten-digit accumulators ….