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fluxion en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈflʌkʃən/
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Etymology

From Middle French fluxion, from Late Latin fluxiō, from Latin flūxus + -iō.

Meanings

  1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The derivative of a function.
  2. (archaic, countable, rare, uncountable) The action of flowing.
    • Perhaps he meant that towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves. 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part III, XXXIII [Uniform ed., p. 299]
  3. (archaic, countable, rare, uncountable) A difference or variation.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
fluxions Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

fluxionary · fluxionist

fluxion en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈflʌkʃən/
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From Middle French fluxion, from Late Latin fluxiō, from Latin flūxus + -iō.

Meanings

  1. To be distributed in a flowing pattern.
    • ...pilotaxitic texture connotes abundant plagioclase microlites prominently fluxioned in an overall sub-parallel manner and locally around phenocrysts (but strictly in a holocrystalline non-glassy matrix). 1982, Charles James Hughes, Igneous petrology, →ISBN, page 142:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
fluxioning Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
fluxioned Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
fluxioned Tense=Past lexicographic
fluxions Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

fluxional