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Efflux vs Deflux - What's the difference?

efflux | deflux |

In obsolete terms the difference between efflux and deflux

is that efflux is to pass away while deflux is downward flow.

As nouns the difference between efflux and deflux

is that efflux is the process of flowing out while deflux is downward flow.

As a verb efflux

is to run out.

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.
  • deflux

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) downward flow
  • (Bacon)
    (Webster 1913)