Flux \Flux\ (fl[u^]ks), n. [L. fluxus, fr. fluere, fluxum, to
flow: cf.F. flux. See Fluent, and cf. 1st & 2d Floss,
Flush, n., 6.]
1. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by,
as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.
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By the perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part
of them is thrown out of the body. --Arbuthnot.
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Her image has escaped the flux of things,
And that same infant beauty that she wore
Is fixed upon her now forevermore. --Trench.
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Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux.
--Felton.
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2. The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb
being called the reflux.
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3. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
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4. (Chem. & Metal.) Any substance or mixture used to promote
the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax,
lime, fluorite.
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Note: White flux is the residuum of the combustion of a
mixture of equal parts of niter and tartar. It consists
chiefly of the carbonate of potassium, and is white. --
Black flux is the ressiduum of the combustion of one
part of niter and two of tartar, and consists
essentially of a mixture of potassium carbonate and
charcoal.
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5. (Med.)
(a) A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part;
especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the
bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux.
(b) The matter thus discharged.
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6. (Physics) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area
of a given surface in a unit of time.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flux \Flux\, a. [L. fluxus, p. p. of fluere. See Flux, n.]
Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
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The flux nature of all things here. --Barrow.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flux \Flux\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fluxed (fl[u^]kst); p. pr. &
vb. n. Fluxing.]
1. To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.
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He might fashionably and genteelly . . . have been
dueled or
fluxed into another world. --South.
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2. To cause to become fluid; to fuse. --Kirwan.
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3. (Med.) To cause a discharge from; to purge.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
flux
n 1: the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given
surface
2: a flow or discharge [syn: fluxion]
3: a substance added to molten metals to bond with impurities
that can then be readily removed
4: excessive discharge of liquid from a cavity or organ (as in
watery diarrhea)
5: a state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually
following some important event) preceding the
establishment of a new direction of action; "the flux
following the death of the emperor" [syn: state of flux]
6: the lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a
moving charged particle [syn: magnetic field, magnetic
flux]
7: (physics) the number of flux changes per unit area [syn: flux
density]
8: in constant change; "his opinions are in flux"; "the newness
and flux of the computer industry"
v 1: move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed
out of the stadium" [syn: flow]
2: become liquid or fluid when heated; "the frozen fat
liquefied" [syn: liquefy, liquify]
3: mix together different elements; "The colors blend well"
[syn: blend, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse,
coalesce, meld, combine, merge]
WordNet (r) 2.0
390 Moby Thesaurus words for "flux":
ASA scale, BM, British candle, Brownian movement, Hefner candle,
Scheiner scale, abscess, add, advance, affluence, afflux,
affluxion, ague, amalgamate, anemia, angular motion, ankylosis,
anoxia, anticoagulant, apnea, ascending, ascent, asphyxiation,
assimilate, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, axial motion, backache,
backflowing, backing, backward motion, bandage, bathe, bleeding,
blend, blennorhea, bloody flux, bougie decimale, bowel movement,
cachexia, cachexy, candle, candle lumen, candle power, candle-foot,
candle-hour, candle-meter, cardialgia, care for, career, catharsis,
change, chill, chills, china clay, china stone, cholera morbus,
chylifaction, chylification, clay, climbing, coalesce, colic,
colliquate, combine, come together, compound, comprise, concourse,
confluence, conflux, connect, consolidate, constipation,
convulsion, costiveness, coughing, course, crap, crosscurrent,
cure, current, cut, cyanosis, decimal candle, decoagulate, decoct,
defecation, defluxion, defrost, dejection, deliquesce, descending,
descent, diagnose, diarrhea, diluent, dilutant, direct tide,
discharge, dissolve, dissolvent, dissolving agent, dizziness,
doctor, downflow, downpour, downward motion, drift, driftage,
dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, ebb, ebb and flow, ebb tide,
ebbing, edema, effusion, egestion, ejaculation, ejection,
elimination, emaciation, embody, emission, encompass, evacuation,
excretion, exposure meter, extravasation, extrusion, exudation,
fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, fireclay, flight, flood,
flood tide, flow, flowing, fluctuation, fluency, fluidify,
fluidity, fluidize, fluidness, flux and reflux, fluxility, fluxion,
foot-candle, forward motion, full tide, fuse, give care to, glaze,
gripe, gripes, growth, gush, heal, heartburn, hemorrhage,
high blood pressure, high tide, high water, hydrops, hypertension,
hypotension, icterus, include, incorporate, indecision,
indecisiveness, indigestion, inflammation, inflow, infuse,
insomnia, instability, integrate, intensity, interblend, interfuse,
international candle, irregularity, itching, jaundice, join,
juiciness, kaolin, labored breathing, lactation, lactescence,
lamp-hour, leach, lientery, light, light meter, light quantum,
liquefacient, liquefaction, liquefier, liquefy, liquesce,
liquidize, liquidness, lixiviate, loose bowels, low blood pressure,
low tide, low water, lumbago, lumen, lumen meter, lumen-hour,
lumeter, luminous flux, luminous intensity, luminous power,
lump together, lunar tide, lux, make one, marasmus, massage, meld,
melt, melt down, melt into one, merge, milkiness, mill run,
millrace, minister to, mix, modification, moisture, motion,
mounting, movement, mutation, nasal discharge, nausea, neap,
neap tide, necrosis, nurse, oblique motion, obstipation, ongoing,
onrush, onward course, operate on, opposite tide, oscillation,
outflow, pain, paralysis, passage, percolate, petuntse, photon,
physic, plaster, plunging, porcelain clay, poultice, progress,
pruritus, purgation, purge, put together, pyrosis, quantum, race,
radial motion, random motion, rash, reembody, refine, reflowing,
refluence, reflux, refractory clay, regression, remedy, render,
resolutive, resolvent, retrogression, rheum, rheuminess, rip,
riptide, rising, roll into one, rub, run, runs, rush, sappiness,
sclerosis, secretion, seizure, serosity, set, shade into, shit,
shits, shock, sideward motion, sinking, skin eruption, slip, smelt,
sneezing, soaring, solar tide, solidify, solubilize, solve,
solvent, sore, spasm, spate, splint, spring tide, sternway, stool,
strap, stream, subsiding, succulence, suppuration, surge, swing,
swinging, syncretize, syndicate, synthesize, tabes, tachycardia,
thalassometer, thaw, thin, thinner, tidal amplitude, tidal current,
tidal current chart, tidal flow, tidal range, tide, tide chart,
tide gate, tide gauge, tide race, tide rip, tidewater, tideway,
traject, trajet, transudation, treat, trend, trots, tumor,
turistas, unclot, undercurrent, undertow, unfreeze, unify,
unit of flux, unit of light, unite, unrest, upset stomach,
upward motion, vertigo, voidance, vomiting, wasting, water flow,
wateriness, wavering
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