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efflux

/ˈɛflʌks/

efflux noun: the process of flowing out.

Noun

efflux (countable and uncountable, plural effluxes)

  1. The process of flowing out.
    • We all age through the efflux of time.
    • The efflux of matter from a boil can be painful.
  2. Something which has flowed out.
    • the efflux of a boil
    • Prime cheerer, light! […] Efflux divine.a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    outflow

Verb

efflux (third-person singular simple present effluxes, present participle effluxing, simple past and past participle effluxed)

  1. (intransitive) To run out; to flow forth.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To pass away.

efflux meaning in Tamil and Urdu

efflux in Tamil

கழிவு, வழியல், வெளியேற்றம், அயனி வெளிப்புகல்

efflux in Urdu

بہاؤ, اخراج, روانی

Examples of efflux in a sentence

  • It is there that the devout affections, undisturbed by other faculties, are incessantly in efflux.1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening, page 398:
  • By facilitating efflux of drugs from the intracellular domain, these proteins reduce cytotoxicity and thus confer drug resistance.2003, Awtar Krishan, “Flow cytometric monitoring of drug resistance in human tumor cells”, in R.C. Sobti, A. Krishan, editors, Advanced...
  • Thus between the earth and the sky there is a perpetual exchange of effluxes following a double way, ascending and descending.1963, Arnold Reymond, History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity, page 31:

Synonyms of efflux

Antonyms

Forms of efflux

Noun
pluraleffluxes
Verb
third-person singular presenteffluxes
present participleeffluxing
past participleeffluxed
pasteffluxed

Origin of efflux

From Latin effluxus, from effluō (“flow out or away”), from ex (“out of, from”) + fluō (“flow”). See also effluxion.

Words formed from efflux

Questions about efflux

What does efflux mean?
Efflux means the process of flowing out.
What is efflux in Tamil?
Efflux in Tamil is கழிவு, வழியல், வெளியேற்றம். See Efflux meaning in Tamil.
How do you use efflux in a sentence?
It is there that the devout affections, undisturbed by other faculties, are incessantly in efflux.
What part of speech is efflux?
Efflux can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce efflux?
Efflux is pronounced /ˈɛflʌks/.
What is the plural of efflux?
The plural of efflux is effluxes.

Words near efflux in the dictionary

  1. effluviating
  2. effluviography
  3. effluvious
  4. effluvium
  5. effluviums
  6. efflux
  7. effluxed
  8. effluxer
  9. effluxers
  10. effluxes
  11. effluxing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: efflux (page history and authors); efflux (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); efflux (Urdu 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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