FromOld Frenchflux, fromLatinfluxus(“flow”).
flux (countable anduncountable,pluralfluxes)
- The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
1731,John Arbuthnot,An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […],→OCLC:By[…]the perpetualFlux of the Liquids, a great part of the Liquids is thrown out of the Body.
- 1991, Mann, H., Fyfe, W., Tazaki, K., & Kerrich, R., Biological Accumulation of Different Chemical Elements by Microorganisms from Yellowstone National Park, USA.Mechanisms And Phylogeny Of Mineralization In Biological Systems, 357-362.
- Investigation of the silica budget for the Upper and Lower Geyser Basins of Yellowstone National Park by Truesdell et al. suggest that the presentfluxes of hotspring water and thermal energy may have been continuous for at least the past 10,000 yr.
- A state of ongoingchange.
- Antonym:stasis
The schedule is influx at the moment.
Languages, like our bodies, are in a continualflux.
1856,Richard Chenevix Trench,On the Death of an Infant:Her image has escaped theflux of things, / And that same infant beauty that she wore / Is fixed upon her now forevermore.
2022 September 19, Alan Cowell, “From Coronation to Funeral: Bookends to the Life of a Queen, and a Generation”, inThe New York Times[1],→ISSN:[…] her eldest son, now King Charles III, has assumed the monarch’s role[…]as the anchor of a nation’s identity in troubled times of change andflux.
- A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior tosoldering orwelding.
It is important to useflux when soldering or oxides on the metal will prevent a good bond.
- (physics) The rate of transfer ofenergy (or another physical quantity), especially anelectric ormagneticfield, through a given surface.
That high a neutronflux would be lethal in seconds.
- (archaic) A disease which causesdiarrhea, especiallydysentery.
1670,John Milton, “The Sixth Book”, inThe History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] ,→OCLC,page245:The next year vvas calamitous, bringing ſtrangefluxes upon men, and murren upon Cattel.
- (archaic)Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
- The state of being liquid through heat;fusion.
chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding
rate of transfer of energy (electric flux, magnetic flux)
flux (third-person singular simple presentfluxes,present participlefluxing,simple past and past participlefluxed)
- (transitive) To useflux on.
You have toflux the joint before soldering.
- (transitive) Tomelt.
- (intransitive) Toflow as aliquid.
flux (notcomparable)
- (uncommon) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
- a.1677,Isaac Barrow, "On Contentment", Sermon XL, inThe Theological Works, Volume 2, Clarendon Press, 1818,page 375:
- Theflux nature of all things here.
Borrowed fromLatinflūxus.Doublet offluix.
flux m (pluralfluxos)
- flow
Borrowed fromLatinflūxus viaFrench andEnglish.
flux m (pluralfluxen,diminutivefluxje n)
- flux
Seefluks.
flux (comparativefluxer,superlativemeest fluxorfluxt)
- Obsolete spelling offluks.
Borrowed fromLatinfluxus.
flux m (pluralflux)
- flow
- flood,flood tide
- Antonym:reflux
- (figurative)flood(an abundance of something)
fluxoblique singular, m (oblique pluralflux,nominative singularflux,nominative pluralflux)
- diarrhea (rapid passage of fecal matter through the bowels)
Borrowed fromFrenchflux.
flux n (pluralfluxuri)
- flow(the flow of thetide)
Borrowed fromFrenchflux.Doublet offlujo andflojo.
- IPA(key): /ˈfluɡs/[ˈfluɣ̞s]
- Rhymes:-uɡs
- Syllabification:flux
flux m (pluralfluxes)
- (card playing)flush(hand consisting of all cards with the same suit)
- (Venezuela, colloquial, Dominican Republic, dated)suit(set of clothes)
- Synonyms:terno,traje
