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Enovis Corp. – ‘10-Q’ for 4/2/21 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Thursday, 4/29/21, at 6:28am ET   ·   For:  4/2/21   ·   Accession #:  1420800-21-16   ·   File #:  1-34045

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

 4/29/21  Colfax Corp.                      10-Q        4/02/21   77:6.1M

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML    721K 
 2: EX-31.01    Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     27K 
 3: EX-31.02    Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     27K 
 4: EX-32.01    Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     21K 
 5: EX-32.02    Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     21K 
12: R1          Cover Page                                          HTML     77K 
13: R2          Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income         HTML     86K 
14: R3          Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive  HTML     49K 
                Income (Loss)                                                    
15: R4          Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive  HTML     27K 
                Income (Loss) [Parenthetical]                                    
16: R5          Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets               HTML     93K 
17: R6          Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets               HTML     31K 
                [Parenthetical]                                                  
18: R7          Condensed Consolidated Statement of Equity          HTML     63K 
19: R8          Condensed Consolidated Statement of Equity          HTML     22K 
                Statement of Stockholders' Equity [Parenthetical]                
20: R9          Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows     HTML     84K 
21: R10         General                                             HTML     29K 
22: R11         Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements           HTML     26K 
23: R12         Discontinued Operations                             HTML     24K 
24: R13         Acquisitions Acquisitions (Notes)                   HTML     23K 
25: R14         Revenue (Notes)                                     HTML     47K 
26: R15         Net Income Per Share (Text Block)                   HTML     39K 
27: R16         Income Taxes                                        HTML     23K 
28: R17         Equity                                              HTML     73K 
29: R18         Inventories, Net (Text Block)                       HTML     30K 
30: R19         Debt                                                HTML     41K 
31: R20         Accrued Liabilities (Text Block)                    HTML     81K 
32: R21         Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements   HTML     79K 
33: R22         Commitments and Contingencies (Text Block)          HTML     41K 
34: R23         Segment Information (Text Block)                    HTML     52K 
35: R24         Subsequent Events (Notes)                           HTML     22K 
36: R25         Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements           HTML     32K 
                (Policies)                                                       
37: R26         Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements (Tables)  HTML     27K 
38: R27         Revenue (Tables)                                    HTML     46K 
39: R28         Net Income Per Share (Tables)                       HTML     38K 
40: R29         Equity (Tables)                                     HTML     67K 
41: R30         Inventories, Net (Tables)                           HTML     31K 
42: R31         Debt (Tables)                                       HTML     32K 
43: R32         Accrued Liabilities (Tables)                        HTML     86K 
44: R33         Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements   HTML     89K 
                (Tables)                                                         
45: R34         Commitments and Contingencies (Tables)              HTML     39K 
46: R35         Segment Information (Tables)                        HTML     50K 
47: R36         General General (Details)                           HTML     23K 
48: R37         Discontinued Operations - Narratives (Details)      HTML     32K 
49: R38         Acquisitions - Narrative (Details)                  HTML     38K 
50: R39         Revenue - Disaggregation of Revenue (Details)       HTML     31K 
51: R40         Revenue - Narrative (Details)                       HTML     28K 
52: R41         Revenue - Allowance for Credit Loss Rollforward     HTML     31K 
                (Details)                                                        
53: R42         Net Income Per Share (Details)                      HTML     41K 
54: R43         Net Income Per Share (Details Textual)              HTML     28K 
55: R44         Income Taxes (Details)                              HTML     28K 
56: R45         Equity Textual (Details)                            HTML     49K 
57: R46         Equity - AOCI Components (Details)                  HTML     57K 
58: R47         Inventories, Net (Details)                          HTML     33K 
59: R48         Debt - Components (Details)                         HTML     37K 
60: R49         Debt -Textual (Details)                             HTML     85K 
61: R50         Accrued Liabilities Chart (Details)                 HTML     46K 
62: R51         Warranty Liability Rollforward (Details)            HTML     34K 
63: R52         Restructuring Rollforward (Details)                 HTML     51K 
64: R53         Accrued Liabilities (Details Textual)               HTML     31K 
65: R54         Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements   HTML     21K 
                (Details)                                                        
66: R55         Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements-  HTML     41K 
                Fair Value Hierarchy (Details)                                   
67: R56         Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements   HTML     22K 
                - Foreign Currency Contracts Notional Values                     
                (Details)                                                        
68: R57         Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements   HTML     30K 
                - Gain (Loss) On Derivative Instruments (Details)                
69: R58         Financial Instruments and Fair Value Measurements   HTML     29K 
                - Schedule of Cash and Cash Equivalents and                      
                Restricted Cash (Details)                                        
70: R59         Claims Rollforward (Details)                        HTML     26K 
71: R60         Asbestos Litigation (Details 1)                     HTML     26K 
72: R61         Segment Information (Details)                       HTML     43K 
73: R62         Subsequent Events (Details)                         HTML     41K 
75: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML    135K 
11: XML         XBRL Instance -- cfx-20210402_htm                    XML   1.47M 
74: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     82K 
 7: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- cfx-20210402_cal                XML    195K 
 8: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- cfx-20210402_def                 XML    435K 
 9: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- cfx-20210402_lab                      XML   1.27M 
10: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- cfx-20210402_pre               XML    715K 
 6: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- cfx-20210402                          XSD    151K 
76: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks              290±   418K 
77: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001420800-21-000016-xbrl      Zip    236K

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