Flux

[flʌks]

Definition

(noun.) in constant change; 'his opinions are in flux'; 'the newness and flux of the computer industry'.

(noun.) a flow or discharge.

(noun.) a state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action; 'the flux following the death of the emperor'.

(noun.) excessive discharge of liquid from a cavity or organ (as in watery diarrhea).

(noun.) a substance added to molten metals to bond with impurities that can then be readily removed.

(noun.) the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface.

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Definition

(n.) The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.

(n.) The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux.

(n.) The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.

(n.) Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.

(n.) A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux.

(n.) The matter thus discharged.

(n.) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.

(n.) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.

(v. t.) To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.

(v. t.) To cause to become fluid; to fuse.

(v. t.) To cause a discharge from; to purge.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Flow, flowing.[2]. Mutation, change, transition, shifting.[3]. Looseness, diarrhœa, dysentery.[4]. Fusion, melting.

Typist: Tabitha

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Flow, motion, progression, change, substitution, transmutation

ANT:Stagnation, stillness, invariableness, identity, immutability, crystallization,arrestation

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Definition

n. act of flowing: a flow of matter: quick succession: a discharge generally from a mucous membrane: matter discharged: excrement: the term given to the substances employed in the arts to assist the reduction of a metallic ore and the fusion of a metal.—v.t. to melt.—v.i. to flow.—ns. Flux′ātion the act of flowing or passing away; Fluxibil′ity Flux′ibleness.—adjs. Flux′ible Flux′ide that may be melted.—ns. Fluxil′ity; Flux′ion a flowing or discharge: a difference or variation: (math.) the rate of change of a continuously varying quantity: (pl.) the name given after Newton to that branch of mathematics which with a different notation is known after Leibnitz as the differential and integral calculus.—adjs. Flux′ional Flux′ionary variable: inconstant.—n. Flux′ionist one skilled in fluxions.—adj. Flux′ive (Shak.) flowing with tears.

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