Current theme: British Tennis Week in association with British Tennis

flux by edinburgh_festival

1st

To view this video you need version 8 or higher of the Flash plugin installed and javascript enabled in your browser.

noun, continuous change; instability

Tweetymologies

How people on twitter are using the word flux

No comments yet, you could be the first. Please log in to post a comment.

1) noun, a flow or discharge
2) noun, continuous change; instability
3) noun, a substance, such as borax or salt, that gives a low melting-point mixture with a metal oxide. It is used for cleaning metal surfaces during soldering, etc, and for protecting the surfaces of liquid metals
4) noun, metallurgy a chemical used to increase the fluidity of refining slags in order to promote the rate of chemical reaction
5) noun, a similar substance used in the making of glass
6) noun, physics a) the rate of flow of particles, energy, or a fluid, through a specified area, such as that of neutrons (neutron flux) or of light energy (luminous flux) b) the strength of a field in a given area expressed as the product of the area and the component of the field strength at right angles to the area
7) noun, pathol an excessive discharge of fluid from the body, such as watery faeces in diarrhoea
8) noun, the act or process of melting; fusion
9) noun, (in the philosophy of Heraclitus) the state of constant change in which all things exist
10) verb, to make or become fluid
11) verb, to apply flux to (a metal, soldered joint, etc)
12) verb, an obsolete word for purge

C14: from Latin fluxus a flow, from fluere to flow

Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008