fluxn.
/flʌks/, U.S. /fləks/ A flowing, flow.
I. spec. in physiological sense.
1.
a. An abnormally copious flowing of blood, excrement, etc. from the bowels or other organs; a morbid or excessive discharge. spec. An early name for dysentery; also †red flux, †flux of blood, bloody flux (see main entry).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > bleeding or flow of blood
runeOE
stranda1240
flux1377
bleedingc1385
rhexisc1425
issuec1500
haemorrhagy?1541
bleeda1585
sanguination1598
falla1616
haemorrhage1671
saltation1672
persultation1706
fusion1725
haematosis1811
phleborrhagia1833
secondary haemorrhage1837
splinter haemorrhage1931
haemorrhaging1967
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [noun] > dysentery
menisonc1250
flux1377
dysentery1382
bloody fluxa1398
fluxion1563
cackerel1659
apricot sickness1945
α.
β. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xx. 80 Kynd conscience..sent forth his foreioures, feures & fluxes.?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 3548 He was lange seke in þe flokes.1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 215 The decoction doth stop the laske, the spitting and pissing of blood, and all other fluxes of blood.1708 J. Swift Predict. for 1708 7 It [sc. his death] seems to be an Effect of the Gout in his Stomach, follow'd by a Flux.1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II I. vi. 156 Rendered unfit for action by a bloody flux.1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon xiv. 337 A flux or scowering is the complaint to which these animals are by far the most liable.1854 C. H. Jones & E. H. Sieveking Man. Pathol. Anat. (1874) 65 Fluxes will be active or passive, according to the kind of hyperæmia which occasions them.c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. ix. 20 A womman that suffride the flix, or rennynge, of blood [a1425 L.V. the blodi flux] twelue ȝeer.
1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 32 The reed flyx..Sodeynly dede Austyn so sore oppresse.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 187 They [sc. Bees] feede so greedily, as they fall into a Flix.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. (1609) iii. xiii. 1367 (note) Hee [Trajan]..died..of a flixe of blood.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 317 Both of them bred a sad Disease among them, with a great Flix.
b. transferred. A ‘running’ from the eyes or mouth.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > [noun] > action of excreting
sheddingc1200
flux1377
outputtinga1387
purgationa1387
avoidancea1398
voidance1398
evacuation?1533
spurging1548
emptying1552
vacuation1583
emunction1601
regurgitation1601
vacation1617
excretion1640
egestion1644
weeping1655
elimination1665
despumation1684
excreting1849
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 179 Whan I drynke wyn at eue, I haue a fluxe of a foule mouthe, wel fyue dayes after.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 95. ⁋3 This Flux of the Eyes, this Faculty of Weeping.
2. † b. That which flows or is discharged. Obsolete.
a. A flowing out, issue, discharge (of humours, etc.).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun]
runningOE
rheuma1398
flux1447
fluxion?1541
defluxion1578
profluvium1603
redeliverage1612
secession1657
flix1667
eluvies1710
rhinorrhoea1846
1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 9 The margaryte, if of blood descende Gret flux, is good it to amende.
1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. i. i. f. 1v Compoundes..whiche doe..staye the fluxe of humours.
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis Pref. Here Females..do by Art that monethly Flux prevent.
1752 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery I. 105 Several ingenious theories have been erected to account for the flux of the Menses.
1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 27 The same condition leads to a watery flux.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > [noun]
flux1382
superfluitya1398
outwaxing?1541
excrement1565
recrement1578
profluvium1603
redeliverage1612
evacuation1625
excretion1630
staxis1745
egesta1787
rejectments1818
rejectamenta1834
rejection1838
excreta1857
excretes1883
output1883
ejecta1890
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > matter discharged
flux1382
fluxion1746
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ezek. xxiii. 20 As fluxis, or rennyngis, of horsis [ben] the fluxis of hem.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. ii. 66 Ciuet is of a baser birth then Tarre, the verie vncleanly fluxe of a Cat. View more context for this quotation
1654 J. Trapp Comm. Job v. 10 Raine is the flux of a moist cloud.
II. gen.figurative and in extended use.1653 tr. S. Przypkowski Dissertatio de Pace x. 51 Which consequence doth also flow by a fatal and inevitable flux from that doctrine of Fate.a1711 T. Ken Divine Love in Wks. (1838) 230 I love, and admire..the perpetual flux of thy goodness on every creature.1865–6 H. Phillips Amer. Paper Currency II. 174 A flux of specie took place into the United States.figurative and in extended use.1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 362 A..flux and reflux of Fears, and Hopes.1799 S. Vince Elem. Astron. (1810) xvii. 159 The alternate flux and reflux of the liquid igneous matter.1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. iii. 71 The flux and reflux of the nations which fought and wandered in the countries adjacent.
3. The action of flowing. Now rare in lit. sense.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [noun]
runninga1398
goutc1400
stream14..
flowingc1440
watercourse1552
current1555
fluxc1600
gliding1600
fluor1642
currency1657
lapse1667
shoot1799
flowage1830
come1862
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [noun]
flowingc950
flowa1450
defluxionc1550
fluxion1555
fluxc1600
fluor1642
c1600 J. Norden Speculum Brit.: Cornwall (1728) 64 At the heade of this baye..is a poole of fresh water, notwithstanding the often fluxe of the sea into it.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 68 The river Ravee..after a stately flux of three thousand English miles..flowes into Indus.
1748 tr. P. Lozano True Relation Earthquake Lima 93 Fire to subsist requires a Flux of Air.
1862 J. Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861 iii. 24 If one portion of the universe be hotter than another, a flux instantly sets in to equalise the temperature.
4. The flowing in of the tide. Often in phrase flux and reflux.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > ebb and flow
ebb and flooda1000
tidea1500
recourse1549
flux and reflux1612
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > rising or flowing in flood
risinga1387
acker1440
increase1555
swelling1557
flow1583
tiding1593
float1594
afflux1603
flux1612
flowing1642
flood-tide1719
1612 in Law Times Rep. (1892) 65 567/2 Lands within the flux and reflux of the sea.
1771 Act 11 Geo. III c. 45 §35 Any Barge..that shall not be navigated beyond the Flux of the Tide.
1805 H. K. White Let. Apr. in Remains (1807) I. 155 Without any means of getting ashore till the flux or flood.
1854 L. Tomlinson tr. D. F. J. Arago Pop. Lect. Astron. 157 The sea..undergoes a flux and reflux as often as the moon passes the meridian.
5. figurative.1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxviii. 264 The mouth from which issued that cool and limpid flux.
a. A flowing stream, a flood.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > [noun] > river
floodc825
streamc875
eaeOE
water streamOE
flumec1175
fleamc1300
riverc1300
currentc1380
reea1500
ford1563
fluent1598
draught1601
nymph1605
amnic1623
flux1637
nullah1656
R1692
currency1758
silent highway1841
1637 T. Heywood Jupiter & Io in Dial. in Wks. (1874) VI. 258 Their waters keep a smooth and gentle course Not mov'd to fury..When loud fluxes fall to swell their bounds.
1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) III. 40 The Syfer Spring is the most noted, having now four Fluxes of Water.
b. transferred. A continuous stream (of people).
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society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > continuous stream of people
fluxa1616
pour1790
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. i. 52 Thus miserie doth part The Fluxe of companie. View more context for this quotation
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 327 At the keeping of this Feast we beheld..such a flux of Men, Women, Boyes and Girls.
c. figurative. A copious flow, flood (esp. of talk, etc.).
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [noun] > profuseness, luxuriousness, or lushness > a profusion or lavish abundance > viewed as flowing or falling
stream971
flood1340
affluencec1390
showera1425
spatec1425
delugec1430
rain1590
spring tide1592
cataract?1614
flux1678
1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Epistles i. 2 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) No Man takes satisfaction in a Flux of Words, without Choice.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 22 The Court brought with them a great Flux of Pride, and new Fashions.
1819 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) III. 60 If I had my old flux of the Muse.
1855 M. Arnold New Sirens 195 This flux of guesses.
1875 F. Hall in Lippincott's Monthly Mag. 15 338/1 Neglecting the flux of verbiage that engulfed it.
6. The passing away (of life, time or a portion of time). Also, a passing period. Obsolete.
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the world > time > [noun] > course or passage of time
process1357
concoursec1400
coursec1460
successionc1485
passing-by1523
by-passing1526
slacka1533
continuancea1552
race1565
prolapse1585
current1587
decurse1593
passage1596
drifting1610
flux1612
effluxion1621
transcursion1622
decursion1629
devolution1629
progression1646
efflux1647
preterition1647
processus1648
decurrence1659
progress1664
fluxation1710
elapsing1720
currency1726
lapse1758
elapse1793
time-lapse1864
wearing1876
the world > time > [noun] > course or passage of time > a passing period
flux1612
1612 J. Davies Muses Sacrifice in Wks. (Grosart) II. 47/2 Age to Death is but the Gally-slaue, that on a moments fluxe, whafts life to death.
1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. vi. 78 That which Hierome speakes in the present tense, as true in all the moments and fluxes of time.
1727 J. Thomson Summer 11 Thus to remain, Amid the Flux of many thousand Years.
1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia I. iv. 28 The moon, by more than twenty changes, admonished me of the flux of life.
7. A continuous succession of changes of condition, composition or substance.
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the world > time > change > [noun] > repeated change or fluctuation
fluxion1555
fluctuation1610
flux1625
up and down1905
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 330 The Matter is in a Perpetuall Flux.
1692 J. Locke Some Considerations Lowering Interest 102 What the stated Rate of Interest should be in the constant change of Affairs, and flux of Money, is hard to determine.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. x. 143 The Language of this Country being always upon the Flux.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. i. 18 The Bodies of all Animals are in a constant Flux.
1851 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire III. xxvii. 223 The perpetual flux of property from hand to hand.
1878 Sully in Encycl. Brit. VIII. 755 Heraclitus conceives of the incessant process of flux in which all things are involved as consisting of two sides or moments—generation and decay.
1885 E. Clodd Myths & Dreams i. iii. 23 The languages of savages are in a constant state of flux.
8. Mathematics.
a. A continued motion (of a point).
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > point > [noun] > continued motion of
flux1656
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxix. 191 Time considered in it selfe is but the flux of that very instant wherein the motion of the heauen began.]
1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. iv. xxix. 377 Rough and Smooth..are not perceived but by the Flux of a Point, that is to say, we have no Sense of them without Time.
1705 E. Scarburgh Eng. Euclide 3 (note) Not that hereby a Line is A Flux of a Point, as some define It.
1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. (new ed.) I. 484 at Fluxion A line considered as generated by the flux or motion of a point, or a surface generated by the flux of a line.
b. = fluxion n. 5.
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the world > relative properties > number > ratio or proportion > [noun] > where quantities vary
fluxion1704
ultimate ratio1729
flux1878
1878 W. K. Clifford Elem. Dynamic ii. 63 This rate of change of a fluent quantity is called its fluxion, or sometimes, more shortly, its flux.
9. Physics.
a. The rate of flow of any fluid across a given area; the amount which crosses an area in a given time; it is thus a vector referred to unit area. Also used with reference to other forms of matter and energy that can be regarded as flowing, such as radiant energy, particles, etc. line of flux, see quot. 18812. flux of force, see quot. 1885.
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the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [noun] > transmission of energy > rate of flow of energy
flux1863
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrically induced magnetism > [noun] > measure of
flux of force1863
skin depth1935
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > heat > [noun] > emission or diffusion > energy produced by > as flow
flux1863
radiant power1863
radiant flux1896
radiance1917
the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > nuclear fission > nuclear fuel > [noun] > thermal flux
flux1947
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > solar radiation > [noun] > emitting radiation or particles
reradiation1827
emission1955
flux1971
1863 J. Tyndall Heat vii. §268 The line of flux..was parallel to the fibre.
1881 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magn. (1892) I. 11 The flux of heat in any direction at any point of a solid body may be defined as the quantity of heat which crosses a small area drawn perpendicular to that direction divided by that area and by the time.
1881 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magn. (1892) I. 13 If two of these surfaces intersect, their line of intersection is a line of flux.
1882 G. M. Minchin Uniplanar Kinematics 159 The flux across each end of the tube would be zero.
1885 H. W. Watson & S. H. Burbury Math. Theory Electr. & Magn. I. 102 Flux of Force..This product, from its analogy to the flux of a fluid flowing through a small tube with velocity u = F, is called the flux of force across d S.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 525/2 Across this surface there will pass a definite amount of radiant energy, in other words a definite total luminous flux.
1947 Science 9 May 491/1 A graphite uranium pile, a ‘hot’ laboratory.., still another pile with 100 times the neutron flux of the first, [etc.].
1957 New Scientist 23 May 32/2 The thermal neutron flux in such a reactor will be on the average about 2 ×1013 neutrons per square centimetre per second.
1963 R. W. Ditchburn Light (ed. 2) x. 397 A flux of one watt of radiation of this wavelength constitutes a luminous flux of 692 lumens.
1964 C. J. Maiden in LeGalley & McKee Space Explor. ix. 242 Recently spacecraft have become available to make direct measurements of the flux of micrometeorites in space.
1967 E. U. Condon & H. Odishaw Handbk. Physics (ed. 2) ix. 280 A definite flux of (1·5 ±0·8) × 10—4 per cm2 per sec for γ rays of a few hundred MeV has been reported..from the direction of the constellation Cygnus.
1971 Nature 7 May 11/1 The flux of hydrogen atoms in the solar wind.
b. (The number of) lines of magnetic induction ( magnetic flux) or electric displacement ( electric flux); the quantity of flux through any surface is equal to the integral of the normal component of the induction or displacement over the surface.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrically induced magnetism > [noun] > magnetic flux
flux1873
magnetic flux1896
1873 J. C. Maxwell Treat. Electr. & Magnetism I. 11 Electric and magnetic induction, and electric currents, belong to the second class, being defined with reference to areas. When we wish to indicate this fact, we shall refer to them as Fluxes.
1898 J. A. Fleming Magnets & Electr. Currents iii. 65 If..a disc of iron is placed in a uniform field of magnetic force, the flux concentrates itself in the iron.
1911 W. F. Magie Princ. Physics xix. 452 The theorems concerning electric flux are similar to those concerning magnetic flux.
1933 E. Mallett Vectors for Electr. Engineers iv. 52 The e.m.f. produced by the alternating flux in the primary coil.
1957 B. I. Bleany & B. Bleaney Electr. & Magn. vi. 147 If the two coils are closely wound..then the ratio of the two fluxes N1 and N2 will just be equal to the ratio of the number of turns n1, n2 on the two coils.
1969 L. Young Syst. Units Electr. & Magn. iv. 42 The flux ‘lines’ spread out over space to produce a certain electric flux density or electric displacement.
III. A state or means of fusion.† 10. Liquefaction or fusion. In in (the) flux.
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the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > [noun]
meltingeOE
humectation1477
liquefaction1477
colliquation1601
eliquation1603
dissolutiona1616
liquation1617
resolution1644
diffluence1673
uncurdling1673
flux1684
fluxion1731
fluidification1837
liquescence1875
fluidization1932
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 199 The morbifick matter..while it is in flux, is most destructive.
1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory i. 32 Let it stand a little in the Flux.
11. Metallurgy.
a. Any substance that is mixed with a metal etc. to facilitate its fusion; also a substance used to render colours fusible in enamelling and in the colouring of porcelain and glass. Cf. fluss n., white flux n.For black adj., crude adj.: see quots.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials used in metallurgical processes > [noun] > substance mixed with metal to facilitate fusion
fluss1683
white flux1741
flux1763
welding powder1873
fluxing1880
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > plated or coated metal > [noun] > plating or coating applied to metal > vitreous coating > substance used in
flux1832
1763 W. Lewis Commercium Philosophico-technicum 68 Borax..is one of the best fluxes for gold.
1795 W. Nicholson Dict. Chem. I. 337 Crude flux is a mixture of nitre and tartar.
1806 W. Henry Epitome Chem. (ed. 4) i. xviii. 244 Mix two parts of the white oxide with one part of black flux.
1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 76 Fluxes which are necessary to render these [colours] fusible.
1875 C. D. E. Fortnum Maiolica i. 8 Lead has been found in some of the blue coloured glazes of Babylonia, and..probably employed as a flux.
b. collective. Substances used as fluxes.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials used in metallurgical processes > [noun] > substance mixed with metal to facilitate fusion > collect
flux1890
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > plated or coated metal > [noun] > plating or coating applied to metal > vitreous coating > substance used in > collectively
flux1890
1890 Kapunda Herald 26 July 2/6 The Trade in Flux. The following are the quantities of flux dispatched from the Kapunda Railway-station.
IV. In card-playing.
12. = flush n.3 [So French flux.]
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > combinations of cards
cater-trey?a1500
mournival1530
sequence1575
pair royal1608
septieme1651
tierce1659
pair1674
purtaunte1688
quart major1718
matrimonya1743
queen-suit1744
quart1746
prial1776
flux1798
fredon1798
tricon1798
intrigue1830
straight1841
marriage1861
under-sequence1863
straight five1864
double pair-royal?1870
run?1870
short suit1876
four1883
fourchette1885
meld1887
doubleton1906
canasta1948
1798 Sporting Mag. 12 142 The flux [in game of Ambigu] is four cards in the same suit.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
flux-linkage n.
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1933 E. Mallett Vectors for Electr. Engineers iv. 52 The flux linkages..through the primary coil are made up of two parts,..due to the current in the primary, and..due to the current in the secondary.
flux-turn n.
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1932 E. B. Moullin Princ. Electromagn. iii. 122 The scale of the flux meter can be engraved to read directly in flux turns.
C2.
flux ale n. ale likely to cause diarrhoea.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > ale > [noun] > other ales
strawberry ale1523
red ale1557
sixteens1584
bottle ale1586
hostler ale1590
Pimlico1609
eyebright1612
quest-ale1681
hugmatee1699
Newcastle brown (ale)1707
pale ale1708
twopenny ale (or beer)1710
twoops1729
flux ale1742
pale1743
Ringwood1759
brown ale1776
light ale1780
blue cap1789
brown1820
India pale ale1837
Tipper1843
ostler ale1861
fourpenny ale1871
four-ale1883
ninepenny1886
Scotch1886
barley wine1940
IPA1953
light1953
real ale1972
1742 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 4) I. 53 Brewers Servants, who formerly scorned what they then called Flux Ale.
flux density n. the quantity of flux passing through unit area in a plane normal to the direction of the flux; esp. magnetic induction.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrically induced magnetism > [noun] > magnetic flux > quantity of
flux density1898
1898 J. A. Fleming Magnets & Electr. Currents iii. 63 When an iron circuit is strongly magnetised it may have across its section a magnetic flux density as great as..20,000 lines or units of induction per square centimetre.
1934 Discovery Oct. 301/2 The 2-in. speech coil attached to the 11-in. cone works in a flux density of 11,500.
1967 E. U. Condon & H. Odishaw Handbk. Physics (ed. 2) vi. 48 The luminous intensity of a source of light in any given direction is the solid angular luminous flux density in the direction in question.
flux gate n. (also flux-gate, fluxgate, flux-gate magnetometer, flux gate magnetometer, fluxgate magnetometer) a kind of magnetometer used esp. in aerial surveys which consists essentially of one or more soft magnetic cores each surrounded by primary and secondary windings, the signal produced in the latter representing in phase and magnitude the direction and magnitude of the external magnetic field.
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1947 Canadian Jrnl. Res. A. 25 125 (heading) Flux-gate magnetometers.
1962 F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics iv. 156 A later satellite, Explorer 6, carried search coil and flux gate magnetometers.
1967 New Scientist 27 Apr. 217/3 The fluxgate is an electronic device that normally measures variations in field strength.
flux gate compass n. (also flux-gate compass) an aeronautical compass incorporating a gyroscopically controlled flux-gate.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > compass > types of
paradoxal compass1558
steering compass1669
variation compass1669
correcting compass1821
telltale1828
pelorus1854
liquid compass1865
gyroscope-compass1909
gyro-compass1910
radio compass1912
gyro1914
gyroscopic compass1920
inductor compass1922
gyro-pilot1923
induction compass1925
astrocompass1942
flux gate compass1946
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > controls and instruments > [noun] > aeronautical compass
flux gate compass1946
1946 M. Davidson Gyroscope iii. iv. 218 The gyro used to stabilise the Flux-gate compass unit..consists of a capacitor type split-phase four-pole induction motor.
flux line n. (a) one of the lines conceived of as representing by their direction and density the direction and strength of either magnetic induction or electric displacement; (b) (see quot. 1962).
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrically induced magnetism > electromagnetic induction > [noun] > line measuring
line of induction1861
flux line1898
1898 J. A. Fleming Magnets & Electr. Currents iii. 62 Where the flux density is large the flux lines are closely packed.
1925 F. W. Hodkin & A. Cousen Textbk. Glass Technol. xxiii. 306 Fireclay blocks, intended for use as ‘flux-line’ blocks, should be made of the same clay mixture as pots.
1962 Gloss. Terms Glass Industry (B.S.I.) 19 Fluxline, 1. The level of the molten glass surface in a tank. 2. The boundary line between unmelted batch and clear glass in a tank.
flux meter n. (also fluxmeter) [ < French fluxmètre (M.E. Grassot 1904, in Jrnl. de Physique 4me Sér. III. 696)] an instrument for measuring changes in magnetic flux.
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1904 Sci. Abstr. B. 7 741 (heading) Grassot fluxmeter.
1933 Proc. Royal Soc. 139 619 The field was explored by means of a large search coil..connected to a fluxmeter.
1960 H. G. Jerrard & D. B. McNeill Theoret. & Exper. Physics xv. 461 The Grassot fluxmeter..is a robust form of moving-coil ballistic galvanometer used for measuring magnetic flux.
flux-powder n. (see quot. 1704).
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1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Flux-powders..are Powders prepared to facilitate the Fusion of the harder Metals.
flux root n. ‘the Asclepias tuberosa from its use in dysentery and catarrhs’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon, 1884).
flux-spoon n. (see quot. 1874).
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1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 894/2 Flux-spoon, a small ladle for dipping out a sample of molten metal to be tested.
flux-weed n. (or flix-weed) the plant Sisymbrium Sophia, formerly a supposed remedy for the flux or dysentery.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > sisymbrium or hedge-mustard
SisymbriumOE
flux-weed1578
mouse-ear1578
thale-cress1777
London rocket1837
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxxix. 117 The seede of Flixeweede or Sophia..stoppeth the bloudy flixe.
1878 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Flixweed or Flixwort.
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† fluxadj.
/flʌks/, U.S. /fləks/ Obsolete.
That is in a state of flux; ever-changing, fluctuating, inconstant, variable.
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the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective]
slidinga900
wankleeOE
windyc1000
unsteadfastc1200
fleeting?c1225
loose?c1225
brotelc1315
unstablec1340
varyingc1340
variantc1374
motleyc1380
ungroundedc1380
muablea1393
passiblea1393
remuablea1393
changeablea1398
movablea1398
variablec1397
slidderya1400
ticklec1400
variantc1412
flitting1413
mutable?a1425
movingc1425
flaskisable1430
flickering1430
transmutablec1430
vertible1447
brittlea1450
ficklea1450
permutablec1450
unfirmc1450
uncertain1477
turnable1483
unsteadfast1483
vagrantc1522
inconstant1526
alterable?1531
stirringc1540
slippery1548
various1552
slid?1553
mutala1561
rolling1561
weathery1563
unconstant1568
interchangeable1574
fluctuant1575
stayless1575
transitive1575
voluble1575
changeling1577
queasy1579
desultory1581
huff-puff1582
unstaid1586
vagrant1586
changeful1590
floating1594
Protean1594
unstayed1594
swimming1596
anchorless1597
mobilec1600
ticklish1601
catching1603
labile1603
unrooted1604
quicksilvered1605
versatile1605
insubstantial1607
uncertain1609
brandling1611
rootless1611
squeasy1611
wind-changinga1616
insolid1618
ambulatory1625
versatilous1629
plastic1633
desultorious1637
unbottomed1641
fluid1642
fluent1648
yea-and-nay1648
versipellous1650
flexile1651
uncentred1652
variating1653
chequered1656
slideable1662
transchangeative1662
weathercock-like1663
flicketing1674
fluxa1677
lapsable1678
wanton1681
veering1684
upon the weathercock1702
contingent1703
unsettled?1726
fermentable1731
afloat1757
brickle1768
wavy1795
vagarious1798
unsettled1803
fitful1810
metamorphosical1811
undulating1815
tittupya1817
titubant1817
mutative1818
papier mâché1818
teetotum1819
vacillating1822
capricious1823
sensitive1828
quicksilvery1829
unengrafted1829
fluxionala1834
proteiform1833
liquid1835
tottlish1835
kaleidoscopic1846
versative1846
kaleidoscopical1858
tottery1861
choppy1865
variative1874
variational1879
wimbly-wambly1881
fluctuable1882
shifty1882
giveable1884
shifty1884
tippy1886
mutatory1890
upsettable1890
rocky1897
undulatory1897
streaky1898
tottly1905
tipply1906
up and down1907
inertialess1927
sometimey1946
rise-and-fall1950
switchable1961
a1677 I. Barrow Of Contentm. (1685) 106 Considering..the flux nature of all things here.
1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus 44 in A. Pope Wks. II A Corporation..is..a flux body.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xxi. 318 The record..was more serviceable..in a dead and immutable language than in any flux or living one.
1797 G. Staunton Authentic Acct. Embassy to China II. vii. 573 The form of those characters has not been so flux as the sound of words.
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fluxv.
/flʌks/, U.S. /fləks/ I. In medicine.† 1. † b. figurative; also to clear of. Obsolete.† c. jocosely. (See quots.) Obsolete.† d. intransitive. To submit to treatment by fluxing. Obsolete.figurative.1733 Revol. Politicks v. 3 This place [Purgatory] of late Years Priests have found, For sinning Souls to flux in till they're sound.
a. transitive. To treat medically by subjecting to a flux; esp. to salivate. Also, of food or drink: To produce a flux in (a person); to purge. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > remove or disperse [verb (transitive)] > cause to salivate
flux1666
salivate1669
ptyalize1842
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > cause excretion of [verb (transitive)] > cleanse or purge
laxa1398
scour1577
laxate1623
work1713
flux1756
1666 W. Boghurst Loimographia (1894) 33 Many people being fluxed with quicksilver for the Pox.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xvii. 592 The Bone must be taken out..the Ulcer cleansed and the Body fluxed.
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 15 Feb. (1948) I. 193 She'll be fluxed in two months.
1756 T. Nugent Grand Tour IV. 21 Their small wines..will certainly flux you, if you drink too plentifully of them.
a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) iii. 59 Full power..to pill..flux..and poultice, all persons.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Flux, to salivate.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > clear of refuse [verb (transitive)]
winnowa900
rinse?a1400
rid1421
redd1446
rede1450
card1612
unrubbish1645
flux1651
ripe1720
ream1967
1651 R. Waring in W. Cartwright Comedies sig. *6v To cure the Itch, or flux the Pen.
1660 Char. Italy 12 Praying for the Dead, which doth so flux the pocket.
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 27 'Twas he, that gave our Senate purges, And fluxt the House, of many a Burgess.
a1688 Duke of Buckingham Poems (1775) 140 E'en gentle George (flux'd both in tongue and purse) Shunning one snare, yet fell into a worse.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > clean [verb (transitive)]
yclense971
cleansea1000
farmOE
fayc1220
fowc1350
absterse?a1425
mundify?a1425
muck1429
to cast clean1522
absterge1526
sprinkle1526
reconcile1535
net1536
clengec1540
neat?1575
snuff?1575
rinse1595
deterge1623
scavengea1644
scavenger1645
decrott1653
reform1675
clean1681
deterse1684
fluxa1763
to clean away, offa1839
to clean down1839
scavage1851
untaint1855
to sand and canvas1912
a1763 J. Byrom Black Bob Wig xli But what can Salivation do? It [a wig] has been fluxt and refluxt too.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) To flux a wig, to put it up in curl, and bake it.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > remove or disperse [verb (intransitive)] > be salivated
fluxa1692
a1692 T. Shadwell Volunteers (1693) iv. i. 44 Would not flux because times were unsettled.
1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 326 A young Wench fluxing for the Falling-sickness.
1755 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 22 Sept. (1967) III. 87 His natural Spirits gave him..chearfulness when he was Fluxing in a Garret.
2. dialect and slang (obsolete). (See quots.)
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1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Flux, to cheat, cozen, or overreach.
1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Flux, to snatch at anything.
II. In etymological sense.
3. intransitive.† a. Of a person: To bleed copiously. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > discharge [verb (intransitive)] > bleed
bleeda1000
letc1330
flux1638
haemorrhage1920
1638 A. Read Treat. 1st Pt. Chirurg. xxvi. 192 The wounded party doth flux to death most commonly before any Chirurgeon can come to stay the bleeding.
b. To issue in a flux, flow copiously.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > copiously
wallc893
bolkena1300
railc1390
gush?a1400
hella1400
walterc1400
yraylle1426
downpoura1522
pour1538
bolk1541
flush1548
sluice1593
teem1753
flux1823
swill1884
1823 C. Lamb Let. 22 Nov. (1935) II. 409 Once fix the seat of your disorder, and your fancies flux into it like bad humours.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. i. 5 The invading waters..fluxing along the wall.
III. In Old Chemistry and Metallurgy.figurative.1754 J. Shebbeare Marriage Act I. xvi. 98 The Allay, which was flux'd out of him had left so little of the Original remaining, that [etc.].1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 38 Every solid in the universe is ready to become fluid on the approach of the mind, and the power to flux it is the measure of the mind.absolute.1872 W. S. Symonds Rec. Rocks ix. 306 These lower limestone beds are used for fluxing.
4. transitive. To make fluid, fuse, melt.
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the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > make liquid [verb (transitive)]
resolvea1398
flow1413
distilc1470
flux1477
liquefy1547
cut1578
uncrud1598
illiquefact1599
resolve1604
infuse1607
egelidate1609
eliquate1621
liquidate1656
diffude1657
liquate1669
colliquate1680
solve1794
liquidize1837
fluidify1849
1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy v, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 79 Liquors helpeth to flux and to flowe Manie things.
1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities 260 Sea salt..if it be distill'd alone..is apt to be fluxt by the heat of the fire.
1762 Gentleman's Mag. (1806) Mar. 102/2 An immediate intense equal heat..fluxes the oar.
1883 J. Nasmyth Autobiogr. vi. 105 The walls under the intense heat, were fluxed and melted into a sort of glass.
5. To treat with a flux (see flux n. 11); to heat in combination with a flux.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > mix metals > with substance to facilitate fusion
flux1780
1780 J. T. Dillon Trav. Spain i. xxiii. 219 If..cobalt be..fluxed like other metallic calxes, it will be reduced to a semi-metal.
?1790 J. Imison Curious & Misc. Articles (new ed.) 151 in School of Arts (ed. 2) To melt the copper as fluid as possible, and flux it with the black flux.
1802 Ann. Reg. 780 The highest finished ware..is..returned to the enamel kiln, where the colours are fluxed six or seven times.
6. intransitive. To become fluid; to melt.
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the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > become liquid [verb (intransitive)]
flowc825
uncrud1398
uncurd1398
relentc1405
resolvec1450
liquefy1583
colliquate1646
flux1669
liquatea1728
liquesce1831
liquidize1969
1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 14 Firing [it] strongly in a crusible until it flux.
1789 G. White Nat. Hist. Selborne 8 The sand..fluxes, and runs by the intense heat.
Derivatives
ˈfluxing adj.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > [adjective] > salivated > salivating
fluxing1702
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective] > purgative
outrunningeOE
laxativea1398
purgativea1398
openinga1400
abstersive?a1425
purging?c1425
solublec1503
minorative1543
purgy1562
relaxing1562
solutive1564
benedict1576
aperitive1582
scouring1597
apertive1605
dejective1605
relaxative1611
subductory1620
calastic1621
aperient1626
cathartic1639
dejectory1640
relaxant1651
spurginga1652
cathartical1656
anastomotic1657
ecphractic1657
ecphractical1657
rhyptical1657
rhyptic1659
loosening1665
eccathartic1681
fluxing1702
chalastic1704
loosinga1722
hypactic1753
evacuatory1789
evacuant1800
relaxatory1925
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [adjective] > salivating
fluxing1702
1702 D. Defoe Reformation of Manners i. 190 From the fluxing Bagnio just dismist.
1710 E. Ward Life Don Quixote i. iv. 71 As Fluxing Patients..Suck Broaths and Cordials thro' a Quill.
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