flux

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  1. noun A flow or flowing.
  2. noun A continued flow; a flood. See Synonyms at flow.
  3. noun The flowing in of the tide.
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  • Now don't go fretting on and making yourself miserable GIRL: "I don't so much mind what you call her flux-de-bouche scolding, but, when she flounced out of the room, she said I was not to go home this Saturday MARGOT: "Oh, that'll be all right. —  Margot Asquith, An Autobiography
  • Fast-flux is a domain-name-server (DNS) switching mechanism that combines peer-to-peer networking, distributed command and control, Web-based load-balancing, and proxy redirection to hide phishing delivery sites. —  Computer Crime Research News
  • The economic order is in flux, and a new one will surely take its place.
  • "Across the UK, on days of high cosmic ray flux (above 3600×102neutron countsh − 1, which occur 87\% of the time on average) compared with low cosmic ray flux, the chance of an overcast day increases by (19±4) \%" —  RealClimate
  • In the virtual state vacuum, THERE IS NO EMPTINESS filled with its incredibly energetic virtual particle flux -- instead, there is only that virtual particle flux. —  ZPEnergy.com
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin flūxus, from past participle of fluere, to flow; see bhleu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English flux, also flix (see flix), a flow, flood (of the tide, and in medical senses), from Old French flux, French flux = Spanish Portuguese fluxo = Italian flusso, from Latin fluxus, a flow, a flowing, from fluere, past participle fluxus, flow: see fluent. Cf. flush (in cards), a doublet of flux.
  2. from flux, n.
 

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