fluxion
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle French fluxion, from Late Latin fluxiō, from Latin flūxus + -iō.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ˈflʌkʃən/
fluxion
- (obsolete, mathematics) The derivative of a function.
- (rare or archaic) The action of flowing.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part III, XXXIII [Uniform ed., p. 299]:
- 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]:
- (rare or archaic) A difference or variation.
fluxion (fluxions, present participle fluxioning; simple past and past participle fluxioned)
- (geology) To be distributed in a flowing pattern.
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