meaning of flux
1. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.
2. The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux.
3. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
4. Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.
5. 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. The matter thus discharged.
7. The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.
8. Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
9. To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.
10. To cause to become fluid; to fuse.
11. To cause a discharge from; to purge.
12. in constant change; "his opinions are in flux"; "the newness and flux of the computer
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