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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Flux \Flux\, a. [L. fluxus p. p. of fluere See {Flux}, n.] Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable. The flux nature of all things here --Barrow. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. By the perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part of them is thrown out of the body. --Arbuthnot. Her image has escaped the flux of things And that same infant beauty that she wore Is fixed upon her now forevermore. --Trench. Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux. --Felton. 2. The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the {reflux}. 3. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion. 4. (Chem. & Metal.) Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite. 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. 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. 6. (Physics) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. He might fashionably and genteelly . . . have been dueled or fluxed into another world. --South. 2. To cause to become fluid; to fuse. --Kirwan. 3. (Med.) To cause a discharge from to purge. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: flux n 1: the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface 2: a flow or discharge [syn: {fluxion}] 3: a substance added to molten metals to bond with impurities that can then be readily removed 4: the lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a moving charged particle [syn: {magnetic field}, {magnetic flux}] 5: (physics) the number of flux changes per unit area [syn: {flux density}] 6: in constant change: "his opinions are in flux"
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