fluxion

noun, verb — 4 senses

fluxion

noun

/ˈflʌkʃən/

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

1

Mathematics, Sciences Obsolete The derivative of a function.

2

Archaic, Rare The action of flowing.

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]

3

Archaic, Rare A difference or variation.

Derived terms: fluxionary, fluxionist

fluxion

verb

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

1

Geography, Geology, Natural sciences To be distributed in a flowing pattern.

...pilotaxitic texture connotes abundant plagioclase microlites prominently fluxioned in an overall sub-parallel manner and locally around phenocrysts (but strictly in a holocrystalline non-glassy matrix).1982, Charles James Hughes, Igneous petrology, →ISBN, page 142:

Derived terms: fluxional

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