Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FLUX
FLUX, n. [L. fluxus; Sp. fluxo; Fr. flux; It. flusso; from L. fluo, fluxi.]
- The act of flowing; the motion or passing of a fluid.
- The moving or passing of any thing in continued succession. Things in this life, are in a continual flux.
- Any flow or issue of matter. In medicine, an extraordinary issue or evacuation from the bowels or other part; as, the bloody flux or dysentery, hepatic flux, &c.
- In hydrography, the flow of the tide. The ebb is called reflux.
- In metallurgy, any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, tartar and other saline matter; or in large operations, limestone or fluor. Alkaline fluxes are either the crude, the white or the black flux. Nicholson. Encyc.
- Fusion; a liquid state from the operation of heat. Encyc.
- That which flows or is discharged.
- Concourse; confluence. [Little used.] Shak.
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