Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Subject to flux or change; variable; inconstant.
  • In mathematics, pertaining to or solved by the method of fluxions.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant.
  • adjective (Geol.) fluidal structure.

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  • adjective chemistry, of a compound That undergoes rapid intramolecular rearrangements, component atoms being interchanged among equivalent structures.

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Examples

  • Berkeley's arguments are directed chiefly against the Newtonian fluxional calculus.

    Continuity and Infinitesimals Bell, John L. 2009

  • For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

    X. Essays. The Poet. 1844 1909

  • Those evils of Athens then, which were found in very deed somewhat later to be the infirmity of Greece as a whole, when, though its versatile gifts of intellect might constitute it the teacher of its eventual masters, it was found too incoherent politically to hold its own against Rome: -- those evils of Athens, of Greece, came from an exaggerated assertion of the fluxional, flamboyant, centrifugal Ionian element in the Hellenic character.

    Plato and Platonism Walter Pater 1866

  • For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

    Essays: Second Series (1844) 1844

  • There is something equivocal in all the words in use to express the excellence of manners and social cultivation, because the quantities are fluxional, and the last effect is assumed by the senses as the cause.

    Essays: Second Series (1844) 1844

  • There is something equivocal in all the words in use to express the excellence of manners and social cultivation, because the qualities are fluxional, and the last effect is assumed by the senses as the cause.

    Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

  • For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

    Essays — Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

  • There is something equivocal in all the words in use to express the excellence of manners and social cultivation, because the quantities are fluxional, and the last effect is assumed by the senses as the cause.

    Essays — Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

  • But how are we to explain the reaction of this fluxional body on the animal?

    Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Hence it is manifest, that, in general, when the fluxional equation has an even number of equal roots, one of those roots gives (A) neither a maximum nor minimum; but when it has an odd number, that root gives (A) either a maximum or minimum.

    The principles of fluxions : designed for the use of students in the university 1812

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