reflux

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹiː.flʌks/
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Noun

reflux (countable and uncountable, plural refluxes)

  1. The backwards flow of any fluid.
    Synonyms: backflow, backflux
    Hypernyms: flow, flux
    • 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, , London: W Taylor , →OCLC:
      […] 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.

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Verb

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

  1. To flow back or return.
    Synonyms: backflow, backflux
    Hypernyms: flow, flux
    the refluxing tide
  2. To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reflūxus.

Pronunciation

Noun

reflux m (plural refluxos)

  1. ebb, ebb tide
    Synonym: marea sortint
  2. reflux

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French

Etymology

From re- +‎ flux.

Pronunciation

Noun

reflux m (uncountable)

  1. ebb, ebb tide
    Antonym: flux
  2. vicissitude
  3. reflux

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French reflux.

Noun

reflux n (plural refluxuri)

  1. reflux

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative reflux refluxul refluxuri refluxurile
genitive-dative reflux refluxului refluxuri refluxurilor
vocative refluxule refluxurilor
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