flux
nounverbadjectiveattested in dialogue
- //flʌks//
The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
noun
- 1
The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
By […]the perpetual Flux of the Liquids, a great part of the Liquids is thrown out of the Body.
- 2
A state of ongoing change.
The schedule is in flux at the moment.
Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux.
Her image has escaped the flux of things, / And that same infant beauty that she wore / Is fixed upon her now forevermore.
Darwin recognized that just as the features of the inorganic world—deltas, river valleys, mountain chains—were brought into being by gradual change, the organic world similarly was subject to constant flux.
- 3
A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
It is important to use flux when soldering or oxides on the metal will prevent a good bond.
- 4
The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface.
That high a neutron flux would be lethal in seconds.
- 5
archaicA disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
The next year vvas calamitous, bringing ſtrange fluxes upon men, and murren upon Cattel.
- 6
archaicDiarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
- 7
The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
Etymology
From Old French flux, from Latin fluxus (“flow”).
verb
- 1
To use flux on.
You have to flux the joint before soldering.
- 2
To melt.
- 3
To flow as a liquid.
adjective
- 1
Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
The flux nature of all things here.
Forms
- plural
- fluxes
- past tense
- fluxed
- past participle
- fluxed
- present participle
- fluxing
- third person singular
- fluxes
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