flux

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English

Etymology

From Old French flux, from Latin fluxus (“flow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flʌks/
• Rhymes: -ʌks

Noun

flux (countable and uncountable, plural fluxes)

1. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
   • 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.

2. A state of ongoing change.

   Antonym: stasis
3. A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.

4. (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface.

5. (archaic) A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
6. (archaic) Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
7. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

flux (third-person singular simple present fluxes, present participle fluxing, simple past and past participle fluxed)

1. (transitive) To use flux on.

2. (transitive) To melt.
3. (intransitive) To flow as a liquid.

Related terms

• fluxion

Adjective

flux (not comparable)

1. (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.

Related terms

• fluxional

Related terms

• fluctuant

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin flūxus. Doublet of fluix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfluks]

Noun

flux m (plural fluxos)

1. flow

Related terms

• fluir

Further reading

• “flux” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “flux”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “flux” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fluxus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fly/

Noun

flux m (plural flux)

1. flow
2. flood, flood tide

   Antonym: reflux

3. (figurative) flood (an abundance of something)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “flux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Noun

flux oblique singular, m (oblique plural flux, nominative singular flux, nominative plural flux)

1. diarrhea (rapid passage of fecal matter through the bowels)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French flux.

Noun

flux n (plural fluxuri)

1. flow (the flow of the tide)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French flux. Doublet of flujo and flojo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfluɡs/ [ˈfluɣ̞s]
• Rhymes: -uɡs
• Syllabification: flux

Noun

flux m (plural fluxes)

1. (card playing) flush (hand consisting of all cards with the same suit)
2. (Venezuela, colloquial, Dominican Republic, dated) suit (set of clothes)

   Synonyms: terno, traje

Further reading

• “flux”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28