slovo | definícia |
flux (encz) | flux,nestálost n: Pino |
flux (encz) | flux,proměnlivost n: Pino |
flux (encz) | flux,tavidlo n: Pino |
flux (encz) | flux,tok Hynek Hanke |
flux (encz) | flux,výtok n: Pino |
Flux (gcide) | 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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Flux (gcide) | 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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Flux (gcide) | 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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flux (wn) | flux
n 1: the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given
surface
2: a flow or discharge [syn: flux, 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: flux, state of flux]
6: the lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a moving
charged particle [syn: magnetic field, magnetic flux,
flux]
7: (physics) the number of changes in energy flow across a given
surface per unit area [syn: flux density, flux]
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, flux]
2: become liquid or fluid when heated; "the frozen fat
liquefied" [syn: liquefy, flux, liquify]
3: mix together different elements; "The colors blend well"
[syn: blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle,
immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge] |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
afflux (encz) | afflux,nával Zdeněk Brožafflux,příliv n: Zdeněk Brožafflux,přítok n: Zdeněk Brož |
conflux (encz) | conflux,soutok n: Zdeněk Brožconflux,stok n: Zdeněk Brož |
efflux (encz) | efflux,odtok n: Zdeněk Brožefflux,výtok n: Zdeněk Brož |
esophageal reflux (encz) | esophageal reflux, n: |
flux applicator (encz) | flux applicator, n: |
flux density (encz) | flux density, n: |
flux density unit (encz) | flux density unit, n: |
flux unit (encz) | flux unit, n: |
fluxes (encz) | fluxes,nestálosti n: Zdeněk Brožfluxes,toky n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
fluxing lime (encz) | fluxing lime, n: |
fluxion (encz) | fluxion,proudění n: Zdeněk Brožfluxion,tečení n: Zdeněk Brož |
fluxmeter (encz) | fluxmeter, n: |
gastroesophageal reflux (encz) | gastroesophageal reflux, n: |
hepatojugular reflux (encz) | hepatojugular reflux, n: |
influx (encz) | influx,influkce [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskačinflux,ústí n: influx,vtok n: |
influxes (encz) | influxes, |
luminous flux (encz) | luminous flux, n: |
luminous flux unit (encz) | luminous flux unit, n: |
magnetic flux (encz) | magnetic flux,magnetický tok n: web |
magnetic flux density (encz) | magnetic flux density,magnetická indukce n: web |
magnetic flux unit (encz) | magnetic flux unit, n: |
method of fluxions (encz) | method of fluxions, n: |
neutron flux (encz) | neutron flux, n: |
oesophageal reflux (encz) | oesophageal reflux, n: |
radiant flux (encz) | radiant flux,tok záření n: Michal Ambrož |
reflux (encz) | reflux,flegma n: Zdeněk Brožreflux,reflux Zdeněk Brožreflux,zpětný tok Zdeněk Brož |
reflux condenser (encz) | reflux condenser, n: |
soldering flux (encz) | soldering flux, n: |
state of flux (encz) | state of flux, n: |
ureterorenal reflux (encz) | ureterorenal reflux, n: |
vesicoureteral reflux (encz) | vesicoureteral reflux, n: |
reflux (czen) | reflux,reflux Zdeněk Brož |
Adfluxion (gcide) | Adfluxion \Ad*flux"ion\, n.
See Affluxion.
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Afflux (gcide) | Afflux \Af"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.
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Affluxion (gcide) | Affluxion \Af*flux"ion\, n.
The act of flowing towards; afflux. --Sir T. Browne.
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Black flux (gcide) | 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.
[1913 Webster]Black \Black\ (bl[a^]k), a. [OE. blak, AS. bl[ae]c; akin to
Icel. blakkr dark, swarthy, Sw. bl[aum]ck ink, Dan. bl[ae]k,
OHG. blach, LG. & D. blaken to burn with a black smoke. Not
akin to AS. bl[=a]c, E. bleak pallid. [root]98.]
1. Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the
color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark
color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a
color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.
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O night, with hue so black! --Shak.
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2. In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in
darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the
heavens black with clouds.
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I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud.
--Shak.
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3. Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness;
destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked;
cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible. "This day's black
fate." "Black villainy." "Arise, black vengeance." "Black
day." "Black despair." --Shak.
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4. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen;
foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
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Note: Black is often used in self-explaining compound words;
as, black-eyed, black-faced, black-haired,
black-visaged.
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Black act, the English statute 9 George I, which makes it a
felony to appear armed in any park or warren, etc., or to
hunt or steal deer, etc., with the face blackened or
disguised. Subsequent acts inflicting heavy penalties for
malicious injuries to cattle and machinery have been
called black acts.
Black angel (Zool.), a fish of the West Indies and Florida
(Holacanthus tricolor), with the head and tail yellow,
and the middle of the body black.
Black antimony (Chem.), the black sulphide of antimony,
Sb2S3, used in pyrotechnics, etc.
Black bear (Zool.), the common American bear ({Ursus
Americanus}).
Black beast. See {B[^e]te noire}.
Black beetle (Zool.), the common large cockroach ({Blatta
orientalis}).
Black bonnet (Zool.), the black-headed bunting ({Embriza
Sch[oe]niclus}) of Europe.
Black canker, a disease in turnips and other crops,
produced by a species of caterpillar.
Black cat (Zool.), the fisher, a quadruped of North America
allied to the sable, but larger. See Fisher.
Black cattle, any bovine cattle reared for slaughter, in
distinction from dairy cattle. [Eng.]
Black cherry. See under Cherry.
Black cockatoo (Zool.), the palm cockatoo. See Cockatoo.
Black copper. Same as Melaconite.
Black currant. (Bot.) See Currant.
Black diamond. (Min.) See Carbonado.
Black draught (Med.), a cathartic medicine, composed of
senna and magnesia.
Black drop (Med.), vinegar of opium; a narcotic preparation
consisting essentially of a solution of opium in vinegar.
Black earth, mold; earth of a dark color. --Woodward.
Black flag, the flag of a pirate, often bearing in white a
skull and crossbones; a signal of defiance.
Black flea (Zool.), a flea beetle (Haltica nemorum)
injurious to turnips.
Black flux, a mixture of carbonate of potash and charcoal,
obtained by deflagrating tartar with half its weight of
niter. --Brande & C.
Black Forest [a translation of G. Schwarzwald], a forest in
Baden and W["u]rtemburg, in Germany; a part of the ancient
Hercynian forest.
Black game, or Black grouse. (Zool.) See Blackcock,
Grouse, and Heath grouse.
Black grass (Bot.), a grasslike rush of the species {Juncus
Gerardi}, growing on salt marshes, and making good hay.
Black gum (Bot.), an American tree, the tupelo or
pepperidge. See Tupelo.
Black Hamburg (grape) (Bot.), a sweet and juicy variety of
dark purple or "black" grape.
Black horse (Zool.), a fish of the Mississippi valley
(Cycleptus elongatus), of the sucker family; the
Missouri sucker.
Black lemur (Zool.), the Lemurniger of Madagascar; the
acoumbo of the natives.
Black list, a list of persons who are for some reason
thought deserving of censure or punishment; -- esp. a list
of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, made
for the protection of tradesmen or employers. See
Blacklist, v. t.
Black manganese (Chem.), the black oxide of manganese,
MnO2.
Black Maria, the close wagon in which prisoners are carried
to or from jail.
Black martin (Zool.), the chimney swift. See Swift.
Black moss (Bot.), the common so-called long moss of the
southern United States. See Tillandsia.
Black oak. See under Oak.
Black ocher. See Wad.
Black pigment, a very fine, light carbonaceous substance,
or lampblack, prepared chiefly for the manufacture of
printers' ink. It is obtained by burning common coal tar.
Black plate, sheet iron before it is tinned. --Knight.
Black quarter, malignant anthrax with engorgement of a
shoulder or quarter, etc., as of an ox.
Black rat (Zool.), one of the species of rats ({Mus
rattus}), commonly infesting houses.
Black rent. See Blackmail, n., 3.
Black rust, a disease of wheat, in which a black, moist
matter is deposited in the fissures of the grain.
Black sheep, one in a family or company who is unlike the
rest, and makes trouble.
Black silver. (Min.) See under Silver.
Black and tan, black mixed or spotted with tan color or
reddish brown; -- used in describing certain breeds of
dogs.
Black tea. See under Tea.
Black tin (Mining), tin ore (cassiterite), when dressed,
stamped and washed, ready for smelting. It is in the form
of a black powder, like fine sand. --Knight.
Black walnut. See under Walnut.
Black warrior (Zool.), an American hawk (Buteo Harlani).
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Syn: Dark; murky; pitchy; inky; somber; dusky; gloomy; swart;
Cimmerian; ebon; atrocious.
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Bloody flux (gcide) | Bloody flux \Blood"y flux`\
The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from
the bowels has a mixture of blood. --Arbuthnot.
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Coeliac flux (gcide) | Coeliac \C[oe]"li*ac\, Celiac \Ce"li*ac\, a. [L. coeliacus, Gr.
?, fr. ? belly, fr. koi^los hollow.]
Relating to the abdomen, or to the cavity of the abdomen.
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C[oe]liac artery (Anat.), the artery which issues from the
aorta just below the diaphragm; -- called also {c[oe]liac
axis}.
C[oe]liac flux, C[oe]liac passion (Med.), a chronic flux
or diarrhea of undigested food.
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Conflux (gcide) | Conflux \Con"flux\, n. [From L. confluxus, p. p. See
Confluent.]
1. A flowing together; a meeting of currents. "The conflux of
meeting sap." --Shak.
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The general conflux and concourse of the whole
people. --Clarendon.
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2. A large assemblage; a passing multitude.
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To the gates cast round thine eye, and see
What conflux issuing forth, or entering in.
--Milton.
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Confluxibility (gcide) | Confluxibility \Con*flux`i*bil"i*ty\, n.
The tendency of fluids to run together. [R.] --Boyle.
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Confluxible (gcide) | Confluxible \Con*flux"i*ble\, a.
Inclined to flow or run together. -- Con*flux"i*ble*ness,
n.
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Confluxibleness (gcide) | Confluxible \Con*flux"i*ble\, a.
Inclined to flow or run together. -- Con*flux"i*ble*ness,
n.
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Deflux (gcide) | Deflux \De*flux"\, n. [L. defluxus, fr. defluere, defluxum.]
Downward flow. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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Defluxion (gcide) | Defluxion \De*flux"ion\, 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.
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Efflux (gcide) | Efflux \Ef*flux"\, v. i.
To run out; to flow forth; to pass away. [Obs.] --Boyle.
[1913 Webster]Efflux \Ef"flux\, 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.
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It is then that the devout affections . . . are
incessantly in efflux. --I. Taylor.
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2. That which flows out; emanation; effluence.
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Prime cheerer, light! . . .
Efflux divine. --Thomson.
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Effluxion (gcide) | Effluxion \Ef*flux"ion\, n. [From Efflux.]
1. The act of flowing out; effusion.
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2. That which flows out; effluvium; emanation.
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Some light effluxions from spirit to spirit.
--Bacon.
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Flux (gcide) | 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.
[1913 Webster]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.
[1913 Webster]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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Fluxation (gcide) | Fluxation \Flux*a"tion\, n.
The act of fluxing.
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Fluxed (gcide) | 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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Fluxibility (gcide) | Fluxibility \Flux`i*bil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. LL. fluxibilitas
fluidity.]
The quality of being fluxible. --Hammond.
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Fluxible (gcide) | Fluxible \Flux"i*ble\, a. [Cf.LL. fluxibilis fluid, OF.
fluxible.]
Capable of being melted or fused, as a mineral. --Holland. --
Flux"i*ble*ness, n.
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Fluxibleness (gcide) | Fluxible \Flux"i*ble\, a. [Cf.LL. fluxibilis fluid, OF.
fluxible.]
Capable of being melted or fused, as a mineral. --Holland. --
Flux"i*ble*ness, n.
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Fluxile (gcide) | Fluxile \Flux"ile\, a. [L. fluxilis, a., fluid.]
Fluxible. [R.]
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Fluxility (gcide) | Fluxility \Flux*il"i*ty\, n.
State of being fluxible.[Obs.]
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Fluxing (gcide) | 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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Fluxion (gcide) | Fluxion \Flux"ion\, n. [Cf. F. fluxion.]
The act of flowing. --Cotgrave.
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2. The matter that flows. --Wiseman.
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3. Fusion; the running of metals into a fluid state.
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4. (Med.) An unnatural or excessive flow of blood or fluid
toward any organ; a determination.
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5. A constantly varying indication.
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Less to be counted than the fluxions of sun dials.
--De Quincey.
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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.
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fluxion structure (gcide) | Fluidal \Flu"id*al\, a.
Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion.
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Fluidal structure (Geol.), the structure characteristic of
certain volcanic rocks in which the arrangement of the
minute crystals shows the lines of flow of thew molten
material before solidification; -- also called {fluxion
structure}.
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Fluxional (gcide) | Fluxional \Flux"ion*al\, a.
Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions;
variable; inconstant.
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The merely human,the temporary and fluxional.
--Coleridge.
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Fluxional structure (Geol.), fluidal structure.
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Fluxional structure (gcide) | Fluxional \Flux"ion*al\, a.
Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions;
variable; inconstant.
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The merely human,the temporary and fluxional.
--Coleridge.
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Fluxional structure (Geol.), fluidal structure.
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Fluxionary (gcide) | Fluxionary \Flux"ion*a*ry\, a.
1. Fluxional. --Berkeley.
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2. (Med.) Pertaining to, or caused by, an increased flow of
blood to a part; congestive; as, a fluxionary hemorrhage.
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Fluxionist (gcide) | Fluxionist \Flux"ion*ist\, n.
One skilled in fluxions. --Berkeley.
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Fluxions (gcide) | Fluxions \Flux"ions\, n. pl. (Math.)
See Fluxion, 6
(b) .
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Fluxive (gcide) | Fluxive \Flux"ive\, a.
Flowing; also, wanting solidity. --B. Jonson.
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Fluxure (gcide) | Fluxure \Flux"ure\ (?; 138), n. [L. fluxura a flowing.]
1. The quality of being fluid. [Obs.] --Fielding.
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2. Fluid matter. [Obs.] --Drayton.
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Influx (gcide) | Influx \In"flux`\, 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.
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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.
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The influx of food into the Celtic region, however,
was far from keeping pace with the influx of
consumers. --Macaulau.
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The general influx of Greek into modern languages.
--Earle.
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3. Influence; power. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale.
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Influxion (gcide) | Influxion \In*flux"ion\, n. [L. influxio : cf. F. influxion.]
A flowing in; infusion. [R.] --Bacon.
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Influxious (gcide) | Influxious \In*flux"ious\, a.
Influential. [Obs.]
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