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fluence

fluence noun: fluency.

Noun (1)

fluence (countable and uncountable, plural fluences)

  1. (obsolete) Fluency
    • a voluble and ſmart fluence of Tongue,1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […]...
  2. A measure of particle flux (or that of a pulse of electromagnetic radiation)

Noun (2)

fluence (plural fluences)

  1. A magical or mysterious force; hypnotic power; energy.
    • I don't say she would have done anything, if it had come to the point; but the fluence was on, and she got me hot.1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 191

Forms of fluence

pluralfluences

Origin of fluence

From French fluence.

Shortened form of influence.

Words formed from fluence

  • fluence rate

Questions about fluence

What does fluence mean?
Fluence means fluency.
What part of speech is fluence?
Fluence is a noun.
What is the plural of fluence?
The plural of fluence is fluences.

Words near fluence in the dictionary

  1. fluellens
  2. fluellin
  3. fluellins
  4. fluellite
  5. fluellites
  6. fluence
  7. fluences
  8. fluencies
  9. fluency
  10. fluent
  11. fluent interface

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