flux
noun
[ flʌks ]
• the action or process of flowing or flowing out.
• "the flux of ions across the membrane"
• an abnormal discharge of blood or other matter from or within the body.
• continuous change.
• "since the fall of the wall Berlin has been a city in flux"
Similar:
continuous change,
changeability,
changeableness,
variability,
inconstancy,
fluidity,
instability,
unsteadiness,
unpredictability,
irregularity,
fitfulness,
unreliability,
fickleness,
fluctuation,
variation,
shift,
alteration,
swing,
movement,
oscillation,
alternation,
rise and fall,
rising and falling,
see-sawing,
yo-yoing,
• a substance mixed with a solid to lower its melting point, used especially in soldering and brazing metals or to promote vitrification in glass or ceramics.
flux
verb
• treat (a metal object) with a flux to promote melting.
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin fluxus, from fluere ‘to flow’.
