different between terms vs fluxion

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??mz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t?mz/

Noun

terms

1. plural of term

Verb

terms

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of term

Anagrams

• ERTMS

Swedish

Noun

terms

1. indefinite genitive singular of term

English

Etymology

flux +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fl?k??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

fluxion (countable and uncountable, plural fluxions)

1. (obsolete, mathematics) The derivative of a function.
2. (rare or archaic) The action of flowing.
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part III, XXXIII [Uniform ed., p. 299]:

     Perhaps he meant that towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

3. (rare or archaic) A difference or variation.

Verb

fluxion (third-person singular simple present fluxions, present participle fluxioning, simple past and past participle fluxioned)

1. (geology) To be distributed in a flowing pattern.

Derived terms

• fluxional

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flyk.sj??/

Noun

fluxion m (plural fluxions)

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Derived terms

• fluxion de poitrine