Meaning of flux | Babel Free

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1. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
   countable, uncountable
2. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream
3. A state of ongoing change.
   countable, uncountable
4. A flow of particles, a fluid, or an electric or magnetic field.
5. A state of ongoing change
6. Something suggestive of running water:current, drift, flood, flow, rush, spate, stream, surge, tide.
7. A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding
8. A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
   countable, uncountable
9. To change from a solid to a liquid:deliquesce, dissolve, fuse, liquefy, melt, run, thaw.
10. The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface
11. The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface.
    countable, uncountable
12. continual change. Events are in a state of flux. veranderlikheid; onvastheid تَدَفُّق، جَرَيان، سَيْل постоянно движвние mudança neustálá změna das Fließen, der Fluß stadig forandring ρευστότηταinestabilidad, cambio constante alatine muutumine تغییر دائمی epävakaus flux, changement continuel הִשתָנוּת מַתמֶדֶת बदलाव, प्रवाह protjecanje, promjena állandó változás perubahan terus menerus óvissa, ótryggt ástand fluire 変化 부단한 변화 nuolatinė kaita nepārtraukta mainība perubahan berterusan voortduren...
13. A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery
14. A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
15. flujo excesivo proveniente de una cavidad u órgano del cuerpo.
16. Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
17. A flow or flowing of a liquid.
18. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
    countable, uncountable
19. Constant or frequent change; fluctuation: "The constant flux of people and groups ensures that human gene pools will always be mixed" (Steve Olson).
20. Medicine The discharge of large quantities of fluid material from the body, especially the discharge of watery feces from the intestines.
    Medicine
21. Physics a. The rate of flow of fluid, particles, or energy through a given surface.
    Physics
22. Chemistry & Metallurgy A substance that aids, induces, or otherwise actively participates in fusing or flowing, as:a. A substance applied to a surface to be joined by welding, soldering, or brazing to facilitate the flowing of solder and prevent formation of oxides.
    Chemistry & Metallurgy

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Examples

“By […]the perpetual Flux of the Liquids, a great part of the Liquids is thrown out of the Body.”

“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. 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.”

“The schedule is in flux at the moment.”

“Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux.”

“Her image has escaped the flux of things, / And that same infant beauty that she wore / Is fixed upon her now forevermore.”

“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.”

“[…] 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.”

“It is important to use flux when soldering or oxides on the metal will prevent a good bond.”

“That high a neutron flux would be lethal in seconds.”

“The next year vvas calamitous, bringing ſtrange fluxes upon men, and murren upon Cattel.”

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