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English
Etymology
From Old French flux, from Latin fluxus (“flow”).
Pronunciation
Noun
flux (countable and uncountable, plural fluxes)
- The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. , 1st Irish edition, Dublin: S. Powell, for George Risk, , George Ewing, , and William Smith, , →OCLC: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.
- A state of ongoing change.
- Antonym: stasis
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.
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:[…] 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.
- 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), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface.
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.
Derived terms
Translations
rate of transfer of energy (electric flux, magnetic flux)
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.
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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.
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Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin flūxus. Doublet of fluix.
Pronunciation
Noun
flux m (plural fluxos)
- flow
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Further reading
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fluxus.
Pronunciation
Noun
flux m (plural flux)
- flow
- flood, flood tide
- Antonym: reflux
- (figurative) flood (an abundance of something)
Derived terms
Further reading
Old French
Noun
flux oblique singular, 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): /ˈfluɡs/
- Rhymes: -uɡs
- Syllabification: flux
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
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