fluxion
Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈflʌkʃən/
Noun

fluxion

  1. (obsolete, mathematics) The derivative of a function.
  2. (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.
  3. (rare or archaic) A difference or variation.
Verb

fluxion (fluxions, present participle fluxioning; simple past and past participle fluxioned)

  1. (geology) To be distributed in a flowing pattern.



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