FLUXION
\flˈʌkʃən], \flˈʌkʃən], \f_l_ˈʌ_k_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of FLUXION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Fusion; the running of metals into a fluid state.
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An unnatural or excessive flow of blood or fluid toward any organ; a determination.
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The infinitely small increase or decrease of a variable or flowing quantity in a certain infinitely small and constant period of time; the rate of variation of a fluent; an incerement; a differential.
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A method of analysis developed by Newton, and based on the conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and involving in their changes the notion of velocity or rate of change. Its results are the same as those of the differential and integral calculus, from which it differs little except in notation and logical method.
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Fusion; the running of metals into a fluid state.
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An unnatural or excessive flow of blood or fluid toward any organ; a determination.
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The infinitely small increase or decrease of a variable or flowing quantity in a certain infinitely small and constant period of time; the rate of variation of a fluent; an incerement; a differential.
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A method of analysis developed by Newton, and based on the conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and involving in their changes the notion of velocity or rate of change. Its results are the same as those of the differential and integral calculus, from which it differs little except in notation and logical method.
By Noah Webster.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The act of flowing or melting; that which flows or melts.
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The rate of variation of a changing quantity.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A flow of blood or other humour towards any organ with greater force than natural. A determination. Thus we say, in those disposed to apoplexy, there is a fluxion or determination of blood to the head.
By Robley Dunglison
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