Definitions for flux

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flux flux

Spelling: [fluhks]

IPA: /flʌks/

Flux is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in flux (flux).

Definitions for flux

noun

1. a flowing or flow.
2. the flowing in of the tide.
3. continuous change, passage, or movement:
4. Physics. the rate of flow of fluid, particles, or energy. a quantity expressing the strength of a field of force in a given area.
5. Chemistry, Metallurgy. a substance used to refine metals by combining with impurities to form a molten mixture that can be readily removed. a substance used to remove oxides from and prevent further oxidation of fused metal, as in soldering or hot-dip coating. (in the refining of scrap or other metal) a salt or mixture of salts that combines with nonmetallic impurities, causing them to float or coagulate.
6. fusion.

verb (used with object)

1. to melt; make fluid.
2. to fuse by the use of flux.
3. Obsolete. to purge.

verb (used without object)

1. to flow.

Origin of flux

1350-1400; Middle English Latin fluxus a flowing, equivalent to fluc-, variant stem of fluere to flow + -tus suffix of v. action, with ct > x

Examples for flux

The Good Wife introduced its potentially fatal fatality into a world already in flux.

Let us first approach the river-gods, or patrons of the flux.

Cheerleaders fall in love with freaks, jocks aspire to be indie musicians, and relationships are in a constant state of flux.

Stem cell differentiation involves a plethora of regulatory factors and signals that are in a constant state of flux.

The inventor of words being a patron of the flux, was a great enemy to stagnation.

Whether the doctrine of the flux or of the eternal nature be the truer, is hard to determine.

The sense of flux which had haunted her all the year disappeared for a time.

Rome is graceful, outlandish, grand, cold, eternal, in flux, and full of olive-rich contradictions.

Twitter, like the national debt or Lindsay Lohans's sobriety, is in a constant state of flux.

This was the subjective which corresponded to the objective 'All is flux.'