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Afflux vs Efflux - What's the difference?

afflux | efflux |

As nouns the difference between afflux and efflux

is that afflux is an upward rush of fluid while efflux is the process of flowing out.

As a verb efflux is

to run out.

afflux

English

Noun

(es)
  • an upward rush of fluid
  • * 1874 January 9, "Chemical News from Foreign Sources," Chemical News [http://books.google.com/books?id=jOUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA20-IA6&dq=affluxes&ei=oWrlRqH2I6HApgKCooX7AQ], page 26, of waterspouts:
    • The vis viva of these affluxes is employed almost wholly in turning the mass of intermediate gas..."
  • (hydrology) The rise in water level (above normal) on the upstream side of a bridge or obstruction caused when the effective flow area at the obstruction is less than the natural width of the stream immediately upstream of the obstruction.
  • * 2004 , Transportation Association of Canada, Guide to Bridge Hydraulics [http://books.google.com/books?id=WjMJvtV1PeEC&pg=PA66&ei=RGzlRpaYMIfmpwKN6ujLDg&sig=_iClxoFfAKCUkxC9KOHAOrQdspk], ISBN 0727732625, page 66 :
    • "Backwater due to the crossing as a whole should not be confused with local afflux at piers due to pileup of flow against the hydraulic stagnation point..."
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    efflux

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • The process of flowing out.
    • We all age through the efflux of time.
    The efflux of matter from a boil can be painful.
  • * 1832 , Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening , page 398,
    • It is there that the devout affections, undisturbed by other faculties, are incessantly in efflux .
  • * 1988 , Elizabeth Sagey, Degree of closure in complwx segments'', Norval Smith, Harry van der Hulst (editors), ''Features, Segmental Structure and Harmony Processes , Part 1, Linguistic Models 12a, page 176,
    • The remaining effluxes are pronounced without audible velar release.
  • * 2003 , Awtar Krishan, Flow cytometric monitoring of drug resistance in human tumor cells'', R.C. Sobti, A. Krishan (editors), ''Advanced Flow Cytometry: Applications in Biological Research , page 55,
    • By facilitating efflux of drugs from the intracellular domain, these proteins reduce cytotoxicity and thus confer drug resistance.
  • That which has flowed out.
    • the efflux of a boil
  • * Thomson
    • Prime cheerer, light! Efflux divine.
  • * 1963 , Arnold Reymond, History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity , page 31,
    • Thus between the earth and the sky there is a perpetual exchange of effluxes' following a double way, ascending and descending. From the earth and sea arise ' effluxes , some dry, others moist.

    Synonyms

    * (process of flowing out) outflow, effluxion, effluence * (that which has flowed out) outflow

    Verb

    (es)
  • To run out.
  • To flow forth.
  • (obsolete) To pass away.