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afflux

afflux noun: an upward rush of fluid.

Noun

afflux (countable and uncountable, plural affluxes)

  1. An upward rush of fluid.
    • The vis viva of these affluxes is employed almost wholly in turning the mass of intermediate gas […]1874 January 9, "Chemical News from Foreign Sources," Chemical News http://books.google.com/books?id=jOUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA20-IA6&dq=affluxes&ei=oWrlRqH2I6HApgKCooX7AQ, page 26, of waterspouts
  2. The rise in water level (above normal) on the upstream side of a bridge or obstruction caused when the effective flow area at the obstruction is less than the natural width of the stream immediately upstream of the obstruction.
    • Backwater due to the crossing as a whole should not be confused with local afflux at piers due to pileup of flow against the hydraulic stagnation point […]2004, Transportation Association of Canada, Guide to Bridge Hydraulics, →ISBN, page 66

afflux meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

afflux in Tamil

உயாவு, நீர் மட்ட உயர்வு, விரைவூட்டம், நீர்மட்ட உயாவு, உள்நிறைதல், மீவரவு

afflux in Urdu

رُجحان, رَغبَت, سیلان, میلان, جُھکاو, بَہاو

afflux in Kannada

ಹರಿಯುವಿಕೆ, ಹರಿವು, ಉಕ್ಕುಹರಿವು, ನೆತ್ತರರಿವು, ಉಕ್ಕರಿವು, ಎಡೆಹರಿವು

Forms of afflux

pluralaffluxes

Origin of afflux

From Latin affluĕre, affluxum. See affluent.

Questions about afflux

What does afflux mean?
Afflux means an upward rush of fluid.
What is afflux in Tamil?
Afflux in Tamil is உயாவு, நீர் மட்ட உயர்வு, விரைவூட்டம். See Afflux meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is afflux?
Afflux is a noun.
What is the plural of afflux?
The plural of afflux is affluxes.

Words near afflux in the dictionary

  1. affluentness
  2. affluents
  3. affluenza
  4. affluenzas
  5. affluenzic
  6. afflux
  7. affluxes
  8. affluxion
  9. affluxions
  10. affly
  11. AFFO

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Adapted from Wiktionary: afflux (page history and authors); afflux (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); afflux (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); afflux (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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