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单词 fluxion
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Definition of fluxion in English:

fluxion

noun ˈflʌkʃ(ə)nˈfləkʃən
  • 1Mathematics
    dated A function corresponding to the rate of change of a variable quantity; a derivative.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Leibniz demanded a retraction saying that he had never heard of the calculus of fluxions until he had read the works of Wallis.
    • For Newton integration consisted of finding fluents for a given fluxion so the fact that integration and differentiation were inverses was implied.
    • I still must assert that this discovery appears to me to be as important for the middle of the nineteenth century as the discovery of fluxions [the calculus] was for the close of the seventeenth.
    • He integrated Leibniz's differential calculus and Newton's method of fluxions into mathematical analysis.
    • He calls the quantity generated by a motion a fluent, and its rate of generation a fluxion.
  • 2archaic mass noun The action or process of flowing or moving continuously; flux.

Origin

Late 17th century: from French, or from Latin flux- 'flowed', from the verb fluere.

 
 

Definition of fluxion in US English:

fluxion

nounˈfləkʃənˈfləkSHən
  • 1Mathematics
    dated A function corresponding to the rate of change of a variable quantity; a derivative.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For Newton integration consisted of finding fluents for a given fluxion so the fact that integration and differentiation were inverses was implied.
    • He calls the quantity generated by a motion a fluent, and its rate of generation a fluxion.
    • He integrated Leibniz's differential calculus and Newton's method of fluxions into mathematical analysis.
    • Leibniz demanded a retraction saying that he had never heard of the calculus of fluxions until he had read the works of Wallis.
    • I still must assert that this discovery appears to me to be as important for the middle of the nineteenth century as the discovery of fluxions [the calculus] was for the close of the seventeenth.
  • 2archaic The action or process of flowing or moving continuously; flux.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French, or from Latin flux- ‘flowed’, from the verb fluere.

 
 
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