FLUX
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Flux (flŭks), n. [L. fluxus, fr. fluere, fluxum, to flow: cf.F. flux. See Fluent, and cf. 1st & 2d Floss, Flush, n., 6.] 1. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.
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By the perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part of them is thrown out of the body.
Arbuthnot.
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Her image has escaped the flux of things,
And that same infant beauty that she wore
Is fixed upon her now forevermore.
Trench.
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Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux.
Felton.
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2. The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux.
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3. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
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4. (Chem. & Metal.) Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.
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&hand_; White flux is the residuum of the combustion of a mixture of equal parts of niter and tartar. It consists chiefly of the carbonate of potassium, and is white. -- Black flux is the ressiduum of the combustion of one part of niter and two of tartar, and consists essentially of a mixture of potassium carbonate and charcoal.
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5. (Med.) (a) A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux. (b) The matter thus discharged.
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6. (Physics) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.
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Flux, a. [L. fluxus, p. p. of fluere. See Flux, n.] Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
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The flux nature of all things here.
Barrow.
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Flux, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fluxed (flŭkst); p. pr. & vb. n. Fluxing.] 1. To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.
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He might fashionably and genteelly . . . have been dueled or
fluxed into another world.
South.
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2. To cause to become fluid; to fuse. Kirwan.
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3. (Med.) To cause a discharge from; to purge.
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