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flux

/flʌks/

flux noun: the act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.

Noun

flux (countable and uncountable, plural fluxes)

  1. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
    • By […]the perpetual Flux of the Liquids, a great part of the Liquids is thrown out of the Body.1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC
    • Investigation of the silica budget for the Upper and Lower Geyser Basins of Yellowstone National Park by Truesdell et al. suggest that the present fluxes of hotspring water and thermal energy may have been continuous for at least the past 10,000 yr.1991, Mann, H., Fyfe, W., Tazaki, K., & Kerrich, R., Biological Accumulation of Different Chemical Elements by Microorganisms from Yellowstone National Park, USA. Mechanisms And Phylogeny Of...
  2. A state of ongoing change.
    • The schedule is in flux at the moment.
    • Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux.
    Antonyms:
    stasis
  3. A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
    • It is important to use flux when soldering or oxides on the metal will prevent a good bond.
  4. The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface.
    • That high a neutron flux would be lethal in seconds.
  5. (archaic) A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
    • The next year vvas calamitous, bringing ſtrange fluxes upon men, and murren upon Cattel.1670, John Milton, “The Sixth Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC, page 245
  6. (archaic) Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
  7. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.

Verb

flux (third-person singular simple present fluxes, present participle fluxing, simple past and past participle fluxed)

  1. (transitive) To use flux on.
    • You have to flux the joint before soldering.
  2. (transitive) To melt.
  3. (intransitive) To flow as a liquid.

Adjective

flux (not comparable)

  1. (uncommon) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
    • The flux nature of all things here.a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, "On Contentment", Sermon XL, in The Theological Works, Volume 2, Clarendon Press, 1818, page 375

flux meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

flux in Hindi

फ्लक्स, फ़्लक्स

flux in Tamil

கற்றை, பாயம், பாய்மம், இளக்கி, பெருக்கி, பெருக்கு

flux in Marathi

फ्लक्स, फ्लक्स करण्यासाठी

flux in Urdu

پاٹ, روانی, بہاو
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flux in Bengali
ফ্লাক্স phlaks
flux in Telugu
ఫ్లక్స్
flux in Malayalam
ഒഴുക്ക്, നിരന്തരമാറ്റം, നിരന്തരപരിവർത്തനം, പരിവർത്തനം
flux in Kannada
ಹರಿವು, ಎಡೆಬಿಡದ ಮಾರ‍್ಪಾಡು, ಸತತ ಬದಲಾವಣೆ, ನಿರಂತರ ಪರಿವರ್ತನೆ
flux in Punjabi
ਫਲੱਕਸ, ਫ਼ਲਕਸ
flux in Gujarati
ફ્લક્સ
flux in Odia
ଫ୍ଲକ୍ସ, ଫ୍ଲକ୍ସ୍, ଫ୍ଲକ୍ସ କରିବା ପାଇଁ
flux in Nepali
फ्लक्स, फ्लक्स गर्न
flux in Vietnamese
thông lượng

Examples of flux in a sentence

  • Her image has escaped the flux of things, / And that same infant beauty that she wore / Is fixed upon her now forevermore.1856, Richard Chenevix Trench, On the Death of an Infant:
  • […] her eldest son, now King Charles III, has assumed the monarch’s role[…]as the anchor of a nation’s identity in troubled times of change and flux.2022 September 19, Alan Cowell, “From Coronation to Funeral: Bookends to the Life of a Queen, and a Generation”, in The New York Times...

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Antonyms of flux

Forms of flux

Noun
pluralfluxes
Verb
third-person singular presentfluxes
present participlefluxing
past participlefluxed
pastfluxed

Plural of flux: fluxes

Origin of flux

From Old French flux, from Latin fluxus (“flow”).

Words formed from flux

Phrases with flux

3 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with flux

14 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about flux

What does flux mean?
Flux means the act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
What is flux in Hindi?
Flux in Hindi is फ्लक्स, फ़्लक्स. See Flux meaning in Hindi.
How do you use flux in a sentence?
Her image has escaped the flux of things, / And that same infant beauty that she wore / Is fixed upon her now forevermore.
What part of speech is flux?
Flux can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce flux?
Flux is pronounced /flʌks/.
What is the plural of flux?
The plural of flux is fluxes.

Words near flux in the dictionary

  1. fluvioterrestrial
  2. fluviovolcanic
  3. fluvisol
  4. fluvisols
  5. fluvoxamine
  6. flux
  7. flux capacitor
  8. flux capacitors
  9. flux densities
  10. flux density
  11. flux unit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flux (page history and authors); flux (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flux (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); flux (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flux (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ফ্লাক্স (Bengali) (page history and authors); flux (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flux (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); flux (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); flux (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flux (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flux (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); flux (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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