Definition of "flux"

flux

/flʌks/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural fluxes
1. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
  Quotations
  By […] the perpetual Flux of the Liquids, a great part of the Liquids is thrown out of the Body.
  1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], 1st Irish edition, Dublin: […] S. Powell, for George Risk, […], George Ewing, […], and William Smith, […]
  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.
  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.
2. A state of ongoing change.
  Quotations
  Her image has escaped the flux of things, / And that same infant beauty that she wore / Is fixed upon her now forevermore.
  1856, Richard Chenevix Trench, On the Death of an Infant
  Darwin recognized that just as the features of the inorganic world—deltas, river valleys, mountain chains—were brought into being by gradual change, the organic world similarly was subject to constant flux.
  2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, pages 55–56
  […] her eldest son, now King Charles III, has assumed the monarch’s role […] as the anchor of a nation’s identity in troubled times of change and flux.
  2022 September 19, Alan Cowell, “From Coronation to Funeral: Bookends to the Life of a Queen, and a Generation”, in The New York Times‎
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.
verb
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.
adjective
not comparable
1. (uncommon) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
  Quotations
  The flux nature of all things here.
  a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, "On Contentment", Sermon XL, in The Theological Works, Volume 2, Clarendon Press, 1818, page 375

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