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fluxional, a.|ˈflʌkʃənal|
[f. prec. + -al1.]
1. Math. Of the nature of or pertaining to a fluxion or the method of fluxions.
1748Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 357 The Justness of an arithmetical..or fluxional Operation. 1823Mitchell Dict. Math. & Phys. Sc., Fluxional Analysis is the analysis of fluxions and flowing quantities, distinguishable from the differential calculus both by its metaphysics and notation. 1828Hutton Course Math. II. 321 Multiply every term by the fluxional letter.
2. Pertaining to, resulting from, or subject to ‘fluxion’ or flowing.
1827Coleridge Rem. (1836) I. 215 How are we to explain the reaction of this fluxional body on the animal? 1842–3Grove Corr. Phys. Forces (1874) 134 The instability, or fluxional state, of all nature. 1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 36 Other effects besides the fluxional creation of the world are referred to. |