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efflux en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɛflʌks/

Etymology

From Latin effluxus, from effluō (“flow out or away”), from ex (“out of, from”) + fluō (“flow”). See also effluxion.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The process of flowing out.
   • We all age through the efflux of time.
   • The efflux of matter from a boil can be painful.
   • 1988, Elizabeth Sagey, Degree of closure in complex segments, Norval Smith, Harry van der Hulst (editors), Features, Segmental Structure and Harmony Processes, Part 1, Linguistic Models 12a, page 176, The remaining effluxes are pronounced without audible velar release.
   • By facilitating efflux of drugs from the intracellular domain, these proteins reduce cytotoxicity and thus confer drug resistance. 2003, Awtar Krishan, “Flow cytometric monitoring of drug resistance in human tumor cells”, in R.C. Sobti, A. Krishan, editors, Advanced Flow Cytometry: Applications in Biological Research, page 55:
   • It is there that the devout affections, undisturbed by other faculties, are incessantly in efflux. 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening, page 398:
2. (countable, uncountable) Something which has flowed out.
   • Thus between the earth and the sky there is a perpetual exchange of effluxes following a double way, ascending and descending. From the earth and sea arise effluxes, some dry, others moist. 1963, Arnold Reymond, History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity, page 31:
   • Prime cheerer, light! […] Efflux divine. a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
   • the efflux of a boil

Forms

Antonyms

influx

Deriveds

radioefflux · effluxome

Synonyms

effluence (process of flowing out) · outflow (that which has flowed out) · outflow (process of flowing out) · effluxion (process of flowing out)

Translations (10)

ru отто́к (process of flowing out) · bg отток (that which has flowed out) · bg изтичане (process of flowing out) · ru истече́ние (process of flowing out) · es eflujo (that which has flowed out) · ru вытека́ние (process of flowing out) · ru уте́чка (process of flowing out) · la effluvium (that which has flowed out) · la effluvium (process of flowing out) · ota سیلان (process of flowing out)

efflux en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɛflʌks/

Etymology

From Latin effluxus, from effluō (“flow out or away”), from ex (“out of, from”) + fluō (“flow”). See also effluxion.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To run out; to flow forth.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To pass away.

Forms