Word: Flux
How to pronounce: flʌks
Noun
Definitions:
1. The action or process of flowing or flowing out.
Example sentences: "The flux of men and women moving back and forth"
2. An abnormal discharge of blood or other matter from or within the body.
Example sentences: "It continued till my coming here to Berwick, and then became so vehement, turning to a flux of blood with so great pain as was possible, that I was constrained to keep my bed 15 days."
3. Continuous change.
Example sentences: "Since the fall of the wall Berlin has been a city in flux"
4. A substance mixed with a solid to lower its melting point, used especially in soldering and brazing metals or to promote vitrification in glass or ceramics.
Example sentences: "The water acts as a simple flux to lower the melting point of some minerals."
Transitive verb
Definitions:
1. Treat (a metal object) with a flux to promote melting.
Example sentences: "It was considered such ideal fluxing ore that the El Paso smelter paid the costs for shipping it by rail and processed the ore at no charge to assure a steady supply."
Synonyms:
dental abscess
flow
inflow
flow stream
state of flux
flowing
melt
magnetic field
Derivations:
fluxing
fluxed
fluxion
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Flux in Other Languages...
Spanish: Fundente
German: Lichtstrom
French: Flux
Italian: Flusso
Turkish: Akma
