Meaning of Reflux | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The backwards flow of any fluid.
   countable, uncountable
2. A technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period.
   countable, uncountable
3. The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“[…] after a little way out to sea, there was a current and wind, always one way in the morning, the other in the afternoon. This I understood to be no more than the sets of the tide, as going out or coming in; but I afterwards understood it was occasioned by the great draft and reflux of the mighty river Orinoco […]”

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