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flux
English
Etymology
From Old French flux, from Latin fluxus (“flow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fl?ks/
- Rhymes: -?ks
Noun
flux (countable and uncountable, plural fluxes)
- The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
- 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments
- By […] the perpetual Flux 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 present fluxes of hotspring water and thermal energy may have been continuous for at least the past 10,000 yr.
- 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments
- A state of ongoing change.
- The schedule is in flux at the moment.
- Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux.
- 1856, Richard Chenevix Trench, On the Death of an Infant
- Her image has escaped the flux of things, / And that same infant beauty that she wore / Is fixed upon her now forevermore.
- 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.
- (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity) through a given surface, specifically electric flux, magnetic flux.
- That high a neutron flux would be lethal in seconds.
- (archaic) A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
- (archaic) Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
- The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
Antonyms
- (state of ongoing change): stasis
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
flux (third-person singular simple present fluxes, present participle fluxing, simple past and past participle fluxed)
- (transitive) To use flux on.
- You have to flux the joint before soldering.
- (transitive) To melt.
- (intransitive) To flow as a liquid.
Related terms
- fluxion
Adjective
flux (not comparable)
- (uncommon) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, "On Contentment", Sermon XL, in The Theological Works, Volume 2, Clarendon Press, 1818, page 375:
- The flux nature of all things here.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, "On Contentment", Sermon XL, in The Theological Works, Volume 2, Clarendon Press, 1818, page 375:
Related terms
- fluxional
Related terms
- fluctuant
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin fluxus. Doublet of fluix.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?fluks/
Noun
flux m (plural fluxos)
- flow
Related terms
- fluir
Further reading
- “flux” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fluxus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fly/
Noun
flux m (plural flux)
- flow
- flood, flood tide
- Antonym: reflux
- (figuratively) flood (an abundance of something)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “flux” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Noun
flux m (oblique plural flux, nominative singular flux, nominative plural flux)
- diarrhea (rapid passage of fecal matter through the bowels)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French flux.
Noun
flux n (plural fluxuri)
- flow (the flow of the tide)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French flux. Doublet of flujo and flojo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?flu?s/, [?flu??s]
Noun
flux m (plural fluxes)
- (card playing) flush (hand consisting of all cards with the same suit)
- (Venezuela, colloquial, Dominican Republic, dated) suit (set of clothes)
- Synonyms: terno, traje
Further reading
- “flux” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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invariance
English
Etymology
in- +? variance
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in?v?(?)?i.?ns/
Noun
invariance (countable and uncountable, plural invariances)
- The property of being invariant.
Hyponyms
- Lorentz invariance (physics)
Anagrams
- vicenarian
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