of one part of niter and two of tartar, and consists essentially of a mixture of potassium carbonate and
charcoal.
5. (Med.) (a) A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid
discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux. (b) The matter thus discharged.
6. (Physics) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.
Flux
(Flux), a. [L. fluxus, p. p. of fluere. See Flux, n.] Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
The flux nature of all things here.
Barrow. Flux
(Flux), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fluxed (flukst); p. pr. & vb. n. Fluxing.]
1. To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.
He might fashionably and genteelly . . . have been dueled or
fluxed into another world.
South. 2. To cause to become fluid; to fuse. Kirwan.
3. (Med.) To cause a discharge from; to purge.
Fluxation
(Flux*a"tion) n. The act of fluxing.
Fluxibility
(Flux`i*bil"i*ty) n. [Cf. LL. fluxibilitas fluidity.] The quality of being fluxible. Hammond.
Fluxible
(Flux"i*ble) a. [Cf.LL. fluxibilis fluid, OF. fluxible.] Capable of being melted or fused, as a
mineral. Holland.
— Flux"i*ble*ness, n.
Fluxile
(Flux"ile) a. [L. fluxilis, a., fluid.] Fluxible. [R.]
Fluxility
(Flux*il"i*ty) n. State of being fluxible.[Obs.]
Fluxion
(Flux"ion) n. [Cf. F. fluxion.] The act of flowing. Cotgrave.
2. The matter that flows. Wiseman.
3. Fusion; the running of metals into a fluid state.
4. (Med.) An unnatural or excessive flow of blood or fluid toward any organ; a determination.
5. A constantly varying indication.
Less to be counted than the fluxions of sun dials.
De Quincey. 6. (Math.) (a) 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.
(b) pl. 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.
Fluxional
(Flux"ion*al) a. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant.
The merely human,the temporary and fluxional.
Coleridge.
