Definition of Flux

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Definition of Flux

Flux

The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.

The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux.

The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.

Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.

A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux.

The matter thus discharged.

The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.

Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.

To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.

To cause to become fluid; to fuse.

To cause a discharge from; to purge.

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Flux Quotations

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
John Locke

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

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
Susan Sontag

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
William James

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.
Hannah Arendt

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.
Robert Byrne

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
George Soros

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.
Camille Paglia

The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

Flux Translations

flux in Italian is fluviale
flux in Spanish is flujo

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