title: Flank
text: # Flank
  
  Flank may refer to:
  
  * Flank (anatomy), part of the abdomen
     * Flank steak, a cut of beef
     * Part of the external anatomy of a horse
  * Flank speed, a nautical term
  * Flank opening, a chess opening
  * A term in Australian rules football
  * The side of a military unit, as in a flanking maneuver
  * Flanking, a sound path in architectural acoustics
  * Flanking region, a region of DNA in directionality
  * Rift flank (synonymous of rift shoulder), mountains belt on the sides of extensional rift basins
  