Definitions for fluxes

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fluxes flux

Spelling: [fluhks]

IPA: /flʌks/

Fluxes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in fluxes (eflsux).

Definitions for fluxes

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 fluxes

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 fluxes

She has also these iron mines in juxtaposition with coal and all the fluxes.

Most of the detachment sick with fluxes and fevers, or wounded in the feet.

The results which would follow from the use of these "fluxes" would obviously depend upon the ore treated.

Many of our people at this time lay dangerously ill of Fevers and fluxes.

There are three small balances by which we weigh ore, metals, and fluxes.

What does it care about the fluxes of reality and dynamic depths?

It is de true bloodstancher, stopping all fluxes of de blood.

Several of our men died about this time of fluxes and other diseases.

It is employed with advantage in diabetes, in uterine and other fluxes.

By skill with fire and fluxes is made that kind of iron from which steel is made, which the Greeks call στόμωμα.