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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flux /flʌks/
▶noun
- 1 the action or process of flowing.
- 2 Medicine an abnormal discharge of blood or other matter from or within the body.
■ archaic diarrhoea or dysentery.
- 3 continuous change.
- 4 Physics the amount of radiation, particles, etc. incident on or passing through an area in a given time.
■ the total electric or magnetic field passing through a surface.
- 5 a substance mixed with a solid to lower the melting point, especially in soldering or smelting.
– origin ME: from L. fluxus, from fluere ‘to flow’.
'flux' also found in these Oxford entries:
B
- borax
- conflux
- D
- fluorspar
- flush
- fluxional
- gonorrhoea
- illuminance
- irradiance
- lumen
- magnetic induction
- maxwell
- permeability
- permeance
- pyorrhoea
- reluctance
- -rrhoea
- tesla
- weber
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