fluxion

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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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