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Grammar : Noun
Spell : fluhks
Phonetic Transcription : flʌks

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Définition of flux

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Old French flus "flowing, rolling, bleeding," or directly from Latin fluxus "flowing, loose, slack," past participle of fluere "to flow" (see fluent). Originally "excessive flow" (of blood or excrement); an early name for "dysentery;" sense of "continuous succession of changes" is first recorded 1620s. The verb is early 15c., from the noun.
  • noun state of constant change
Example sentences :
  • Let us first approach the river-gods, or patrons of the flux.
  • Extract from : « Theaetetus » by Plato
  • This was the subjective which corresponded to the objective 'All is flux.'
  • Extract from : « Theaetetus » by Plato
  • The sense of flux which had haunted her all the year disappeared for a time.
  • Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster
  • The inventor of words being a patron of the flux, was a great enemy to stagnation.
  • Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato
  • Whether the doctrine of the flux or of the eternal nature be the truer, is hard to determine.
  • Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato
  • Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
  • Extract from : « Nature » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • He glanced over at the equate-panel, at the flux of dancing lights.
  • Extract from : « We're Friends, Now » by Henry Hasse
  • Flux and reflux, the fire and the water, the water and the fire!
  • Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
  • He was sick of a flux nine months, and had a child which died of the plague.
  • Extract from : « Fox's Book of Martyrs » by John Foxe
  • The flux is applied and the iron run slowly along the joint.
  • Extract from : « On Laboratory Arts » by Richard Threlfall

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