flux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flʌks/
rhymes: -ʌks
Forms: form: fluxes
Etymology: From Old French flux, from Latin fluxus (“flow”).
Senses: examples: text: By […]the perpetual Flux of the Liquids, a great part of the Liquids is thrown out of the Body.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
glosses: The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
examples: text: The schedule is in flux at the moment.
text: Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux.
text: Her image has escaped the flux of things, / And that same infant beauty that she wore / Is fixed upon her now forevermore.
ref: 1856, Richard Chenevix Trench, On the Death of an Infant:
text: 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.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, pages 55–56:
text: […] 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 and flux.
ref: 2022 September 19, Alan Cowell, “From Coronation to Funeral: Bookends to the Life of a Queen, and a Generation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
antonyms: stasis
glosses: A state of ongoing change.
examples: text: It is important to use flux when soldering or oxides on the metal will prevent a good bond.
glosses: A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
examples: text: That high a neutron flux would be lethal in seconds.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface.
examples: text: The next year vvas calamitous, bringing ſtrange fluxes upon men, and murren upon Cattel.
ref: 1670, John Milton, “The Sixth Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC, page 245:
glosses: A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
glosses: Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
glosses: The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
Hyponyms: actinic flux
biflux
black flux
bloody flux
chemical flux
chemiflux
eigenflux
electric flux
genderflux
hyperflux
isoflux
luminous flux
magnetic flux
magnetic flux density
neutron flux
outflux
overflux
radiant flux
slime flux
spectral flux
transflux
triflux
upflux
white flux
Derived terms: calfluxin
coeliac-flux
fluxation
fluxbrane
flux capacitor
flux density
fluxgate
fluximetry
fluxity
fluxive
fluxless
fluxlike
fluxoid
fluxome
fluxon
fluxonium
fluxotaxis
fluxtube
flux tube
flux unit
fluxy
state of flux