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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_122947" /> == | |||
<p> ''''' | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) The setting in of the tide toward the shore, - the ebb being called the reflux. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) The state of being liquid through heat; fusion. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' n.) [[A]] fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See [[Bloody]] flux. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' n.) The matter thus discharged. </p> <p> '''(7):''' ''' (''' n.) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time. </p> <p> '''(8):''' ''' (''' n.) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable. </p> <p> '''(9):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To cause a discharge from; to purge. </p> <p> '''(10):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux. </p> <p> '''(11):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To cause to become fluid; to fuse. </p> | ||
== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_60297" /> == | |||
<p> [[Flux,]] n. [[L.]] fluxus, fluo, fluxi. </p> 1. The act of flowing the motion or passing of a fluid. 2. The moving or passing of any thing in continued succession. Things in this life, are in a continual flux. 3. Any flow or issue of matter. In medicine, an extraordinary issue or evacuation from the bowels or other part as the bloody flux or dysentery, hepatic flux, &c. 4. In hydrography, the flow of the tide. The ebb is called reflux. 5. In metallurgy, any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, tartar and other saline matter, or in large operations limestone or fluor. Alkaline fluxes are either the crude, the white or the black flux. 6. Fusion a liquid state from the operation of heat. 7. That which flows or is discharged. 8. [[Concourse]] confluence. Little used. <p> [[Flux,]] a. [[Flowing]] moving maintained by a constant succession of parts inconstant variable. Not well authorized. </p> <p> [[Flux,]] </p> 1. To melt to fuse to make fluid. <p> One part of mineral alkali will flux two of siliceous earth with effervescence. </p> 2. To salivate. Little used. | |||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_51096" /> == | |||
<p> <strong> [[Flux]] </strong> . The expression ‘a bloody flux’ (1611 ‘bloody-flixe’) is used in [[Av]] [Note: Authorized Version.] for Gr. <em> dysenterion </em> [[(Rv]] [Note: Revised Version.] ‘dysentery’). This trans. is first found in Wyclif, who offers the alternative ‘dissenterie, or flix.’ See Medicine. </p> | |||
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Revision as of 22:57, 12 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) The setting in of the tide toward the shore, - the ebb being called the reflux.
(2): ( n.) The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
(3): ( n.) The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.
(4): ( n.) Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.
(5): ( n.) A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux.
(6): ( n.) The matter thus discharged.
(7): ( n.) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.
(8): ( n.) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
(9): ( v. t.) To cause a discharge from; to purge.
(10): ( v. t.) To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.
(11): ( v. t.) To cause to become fluid; to fuse.
King James Dictionary [2]
Flux, n. L. fluxus, fluo, fluxi.
1. The act of flowing the motion or passing of a fluid. 2. The moving or passing of any thing in continued succession. Things in this life, are in a continual flux. 3. Any flow or issue of matter. In medicine, an extraordinary issue or evacuation from the bowels or other part as the bloody flux or dysentery, hepatic flux, &c. 4. In hydrography, the flow of the tide. The ebb is called reflux. 5. In metallurgy, any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, tartar and other saline matter, or in large operations limestone or fluor. Alkaline fluxes are either the crude, the white or the black flux. 6. Fusion a liquid state from the operation of heat. 7. That which flows or is discharged. 8. Concourse confluence. Little used.
Flux, a. Flowing moving maintained by a constant succession of parts inconstant variable. Not well authorized.
1. To melt to fuse to make fluid.
One part of mineral alkali will flux two of siliceous earth with effervescence.
2. To salivate. Little used.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [3]
Flux . The expression ‘a bloody flux’ (1611 ‘bloody-flixe’) is used in Av [Note: Authorized Version.] for Gr. dysenterion (Rv [Note: Revised Version.] ‘dysentery’). This trans. is first found in Wyclif, who offers the alternative ‘dissenterie, or flix.’ See Medicine.
