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fluxions

fluxions is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fluxion.

fluxions is the plural of fluxion.

Meaning of fluxion

Verb

fluxion (third-person singular simple present fluxions, present participle fluxioning, simple past and past participle fluxioned)

  1. To be distributed in a flowing pattern.
    • ...pilotaxitic texture connotes abundant plagioclase microlites prominently fluxioned in an overall sub-parallel manner and locally around phenocrysts (but strictly in a holocrystalline non-glassy matrix).1982, Charles James Hughes, Igneous petrology, →ISBN, page 142

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Noun

fluxions

  1. (obsolete) differential calculus.
    • The sheltered world of academia suited Clarence, who for the first time was among his intellectual peers. He excelled at geometry, algebra and fluxions.2022, Hernan Diaz, Trust, Picador (2023), page 141

Questions about fluxions

What does fluxions mean?
Fluxions means differential calculus.
What is fluxions the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fluxions is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fluxion.
What part of speech is fluxions?
Fluxions is a noun.

Words near fluxions in the dictionary

  1. fluxionary
  2. fluxioned
  3. fluxioning
  4. fluxionist
  5. fluxionists
  6. fluxions
  7. fluxity
  8. fluxive
  9. fluxivity
  10. fluxless
  11. fluxlike

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