flux
/flʌks/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.57 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "By […]the perpetual Flux of the Liquids, a great part of the Liquids is thrown out of the Body."
- "1991, Mann, H., Fyfe, W., Tazaki, K., & Kerrich, R., Biological Accumulation of Different Chemical Elements by Microorganisms from Yellowstone National Park, USA. Mechanisms And Phylogeny Of Mineralization In Biological Systems, 357-362. Investigation of the silica budget for the Upper and Lower Geyser Basins of Yellowstone National Park by Truesdell et al. suggest that the present fluxes of hotspring water and thermal energy may have been continuous for at least the past 10,000 yr."
- "The schedule is in flux at the moment."
- "Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux."
- "Her image has escaped the flux of things, / And that same infant beauty that she wore / Is fixed upon her now forevermore."
- "Darwin recognized that just as the features of the inorganic world—deltas, river valleys, mountain chains—were brought into being by gradual change, the organic world similarly was subject to constant flux."