*flux*

n. [ L. affluxum, p. p. of affluere: cf. F. afflux. See Affluence. ] A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of flowing towards; afflux. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From L. confluxus, p. p. See Confluent. ] 1. A flowing together; a meeting of currents. “The conflux of meeting sap.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The general conflux and concourse of the whole people. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A large assemblage; a passing multitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

To the gates cast round thine eye, and see
What conflux issuing forth, or entering in. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The tendency of fluids to run together. [ R. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inclined to flow or run together. -- Con*flux"i*ble*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. defluxus, fr. defluere, defluxum. ] Downward flow. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. defluxio. ] (Med.) A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To run out; to flow forth; to pass away. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Effluent, Flux. ] 1. The act or process of flowing out, or issuing forth; effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is then that the devout affections . . . are incessantly in efflux. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which flows out; emanation; effluence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Prime cheerer, light! . . .
Efflux divine. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Efflux. ] 1. The act of flowing out; effusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which flows out; effluvium; emanation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some light effluxions from spirit to spirit. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

By the perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part of them is thrown out of the body. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her image has escaped the flux of things,
And that same infant beauty that she wore
Is fixed upon her now forevermore. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux. Felton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Chem. & Metal.) Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Physics) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fluxus, p. p. of fluere. See Flux, n. ] Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable. [ 1913 Webster ]

The flux nature of all things here. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fluxed p. pr. & vb. n. Fluxing. ] 1. To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux. [ 1913 Webster ]

He might fashionably and genteelly . . . have been dueled or
fluxed into another world. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to become fluid; to fuse. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) To cause a discharge from; to purge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of fluxing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. LL. fluxibilitas fluidity. ] The quality of being fluxible. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf.LL. fluxibilis fluid, OF. fluxible. ] Capable of being melted or fused, as a mineral. Holland.

-- Flux"i*ble*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. fluxilis, a., fluid. ] Fluxible. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being fluxible.[ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. fluxion. ] The act of flowing. Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The matter that flows. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fusion; the running of metals into a fluid state. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Med.) An unnatural or excessive flow of blood or fluid toward any organ; a determination. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A constantly varying indication. [ 1913 Webster ]

Less to be counted than the fluxions of sun dials. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Math.) (a) The infinitely small increase or decrease of a variable or flowing quantity in a certain infinitely small and constant period of time; the rate of variation of a fluent; an incerement; a differential. (b) pl. A method of analysis developed by Newton, and based on the conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and involving in their changes the notion of velocity or rate of change. Its results are the same as those of the differential and integral calculus, from which it differs little except in notation and logical method. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant. [ 1913 Webster ]

The merely human, the temporary and fluxional. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fluxional structure (Geol.), fluidal structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Fluxional. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Pertaining to, or caused by, an increased flow of blood to a part; congestive; as, a fluxionary hemorrhage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in fluxions. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. (Math.) See Fluxion, 6(b). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Flowing; also, wanting solidity. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. fluxura a flowing. ] 1. The quality of being fluid. [ Obs. ] Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fluid matter. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. influxus, fr. influere, influxum, to flow in: cf. F. influx. See Influent. ] 1. The act of flowing in; as, an influx of light. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A coming in; infusion; intromission; introduction; importation in abundance; also, that which flows or comes in; as, a great influx of goods into a country, or an influx of gold and silver. [ 1913 Webster ]

The influx of food into the Celtic region, however, was far from keeping pace with the influx of consumers. Macaulau. [ 1913 Webster ]

The general influx of Greek into modern languages. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Influence; power. [ Obs. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. influxio : cf. F. influxion. ] A flowing in; infusion. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Influential. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a tendency to flow in; having influence; influential. [ R. ] Holdsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By influxion. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A measure of the strength of a magnetic field over a given area. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Same as magnetic field. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The amount of magnetic flux in a unit area perpendicular to the direction of magnetic flow.
Syn. -- magnetic field strength, magnetic intensity, magnetic induction. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Overflow; exuberance. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Returning, or flowing back; reflex; as, reflux action. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. reflux. See Refluent, Flux. ] A flowing back, as the return of a fluid; ebb; reaction; as, the flux and reflux of the tides. [ 1913 Webster ]

All from me
Shall with a fierce reflux on me redound. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Superabundance; superfluity; an overflowing. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]