different between oversupply vs reflux

English

Etymology

From over- +? supply.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??v?s??pl??/

Verb

oversupply (third-person singular simple present oversupplies, present participle oversupplying, simple past and past participle oversupplied)

1. To supply more than is needed.

Noun

oversupply (countable and uncountable, plural oversupplies)

1. An excessive supply. [from 19th c.]
   • 2012, Jurek Martin, ‘A Singular President’, Literary Review, 401:

     He does not like twisting arms, LBJ's forte, preferring the force of reason, a commodity not in over-supply in the nation's capital.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?.fl?ks/

Noun

reflux (countable and uncountable, plural refluxes)

1. The backwards flow of any fluid.
   • 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     […] after a little way out to sea, there was a current and wind, always one way in the morning, the other in the afternoon. This I understood to be no more than the sets of the tide, as going out or coming in; but I afterwards understood it was occasioned by the great draft and reflux of the mighty river Orinoco […]

2. (chemistry) A technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period.
3. (pathology) The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

reflux (third-person singular simple present refluxes, present participle refluxing, simple past and past participle refluxed)

1. To flow back or return.

   the refluxing tide

2. To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin refluxus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /r??fluks/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /re?fluks/

Noun

reflux m (plural refluxos)

1. ebb, ebb tide

   Synonym: marea sortint

2. reflux

Related terms

• refluir

Further reading

• “reflux” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.fly/

Noun

reflux m (uncountable)

1. ebb, ebb tide

   Antonym: flux

2. vicissitude
3. reflux

Romanian

Etymology

From French reflux.

Noun

reflux n (plural refluxuri)

1. reflux

Declension