flux

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  • v flux mix together different elements "The colors blend well"
  • v flux become liquid or fluid when heated "the frozen fat liquefied"
  • v flux move or progress freely as if in a stream "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"
  • n flux in constant change "his opinions are in flux","the newness and flux of the computer industry"
  • n flux (physics) the number of changes in energy flow across a given surface per unit area
  • n flux a flow or discharge
  • n flux the lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a moving charged particle
  • n flux 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"
  • n flux excessive discharge of liquid from a cavity or organ (as in watery diarrhea)
  • n flux a substance added to molten metals to bond with impurities that can then be readily removed
  • n flux the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface
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• • Flux (Med) A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux.
  • Flux (Chem. & Metal) Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.
  • a Flux Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable. "The flux nature of all things here."
  • Flux 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.""Her image has escaped the flux of things,
    And that same infant beauty that she wore
    Is fixed upon her now forevermore.""Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux ."
  • Flux (Med) The matter thus discharged.
  • Flux (Physics) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.
  • Flux The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux.
  • Flux The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
  • Flux To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux. "He might fashionably and genteelly . . . have been dueled or fluxed into another world."
  • Flux (Med) To cause a discharge from; to purge.
  • Flux To cause to become fluid; to fuse.
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• • n flux The act of flowing; a flowing, as of a fluid; flow in general, but now most commonly an occasional flow; an outpouring or effusion of anything.
  • n flux Hence Continual change; the mode of being of that which is instantaneous, ceasing to exist as soon as it begins to exist. This is specifically termed Heraclitan flux, from the doctrine of the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus that there is no being or permanence, but that all things are transitory and fleeting.
  • n flux In pathology, a morbid or abnormal issue or discharge of matter, as blood, mucus, or pus, from any mucous surface of the internal vessels or viscera: as, the bloody flux (dysentery).
  • n flux Matter which is discharged in a flux; defluxion; excrement.
  • n flux A flowing together; concourse; confluence.
  • n flux Fusion; conversion to a liquid state by the operation of heat.
  • n flux In metallurgy, any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalis, borax, tartar, and other saline matter, or, in large operations, limestone or fluor-spar. Alkaline fluxes are either the crude, the white, or the black flux. When tartar is deflagrated with half its weight of niter, a mixture of charcoal and carbonate of potash remains, which is often called black flux; when an equal weight of niter is used, the whole of the charcoal is burned off, and carbonate of potassium remains, which, when thus procured, is called white flux.
  • n flux In mathematics, a vector which is referred to a unit of area.
  • flux Flowing; changing; inconstant; variable.
  • flux To flood; overflow.
  • flux In medicine, to cause a flux or evacuation from; salivate; purge.
  • flux To clear or clean out by or as if by an evacuation; relieve by purging, literally or figuratively.
  • flux To melt; fuse; make fluid.
  • flux To flow or change.
  • n flux Continuous motion.
  • n flux In enameling, a colorless vitreous base, composed of silica mixed with minium or red lead and potash or carbonate of soda. See fondant, 2.
  • n flux In botany, the slimy exudation from wounds in the bark of various trees.
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• • n Flux fluks act of flowing: a flow of matter: quick succession: a discharge generally from a mucous membrane: matter discharged: excrement: the term given to the substances employed in the arts to assist the reduction of a metallic ore and the fusion of a metal
  • v.t Flux to melt
  • v.i Flux to flow
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• Camille Paglia

  

  “Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.”
• Hannah Arendt

  

  “Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.”
• Susan Sontag

  

  “Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.”
• Jean Jacques Rousseau

  

  “Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.”
• Robert Collier

  

  “Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.”

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