the meaning of "FLOW" in the editing community.

[EpicMango]

So a bad example of flow would be A character is walking through a field in a calm setting and in the next clip another character is firing an energy blast? Is that about right? And just pretend my example matches the beat of the music.

Not necessarily, if you have beat sync (as you suggest in your hypothetical) and the change of scene reflects a change in lyrics, tempo, mood, etc and makes sense to the viewer in the context of the whole, then that would be following flow, not going against it.

Oh ok that's good to know