Definition of "efflux"

efflux

/ˈɛflʌks/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural effluxes
1. The process of flowing out.
  Quotations
  It is there that the devout affections, undisturbed by other faculties, are incessantly in efflux.
  1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening‎, page 398
  The remaining effluxes are pronounced without audible velar release.
  1988, Elizabeth Sagey, Degree of closure in complex segments, Norval Smith, Harry van der Hulst (editors), Features, Segmental Structure and Harmony Processes, Part 1, Linguistic Models 12a, page 176
  By facilitating efflux of drugs from the intracellular domain, these proteins reduce cytotoxicity and thus confer drug resistance.
  2003, Awtar Krishan, “Flow cytometric monitoring of drug resistance in human tumor cells”, in R.C. Sobti, A. Krishan, editors, Advanced Flow Cytometry: Applications in Biological Research, page 55
2. That which has flowed out.
  Quotations
  Prime cheerer, light! […] Efflux divine.
  1727, James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768
  Thus between the earth and the sky there is a perpetual exchange of effluxes following a double way, ascending and descending. From the earth and sea arise effluxes, some dry, others moist.
  1963, Arnold Reymond, History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity‎, page 31
verb
third-person singular simple present effluxes, present participle effluxing, simple past and past participle effluxed
1. (intransitive) To run out; to flow forth.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To pass away.

Definition of "efflux"

efflux

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