What is the difference between flow and flux?
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A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
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The rising movement of the tide.
Smoothness or continuity.
The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
(psychology) The state of being at one with.
Menstruation fluid
To move as a fluid from one position to another.
To proceed; to issue forth.
* Milton
To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
* Dryden
To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
* Bible, Joel iii. 18
* Prof. Wilson
To hang loosely and wave.
* A. Hamilton
To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb .
* Shakespeare
(computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
To cover with varnish.
To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
* Arbuthnot
A state of ongoing change.
* Trench
* Felton
A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
(physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity) through a given surface, specifically electric flux, magnetic flux.
(archaic) A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
(archaic) diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body
The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
To use flux.
To melt.
To flow as a liquid.
Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
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As nouns the difference between flow and flux
is that flow is a movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts while flux is the act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.As verbs the difference between flow and flux
is that flow is to move as a fluid from one position to another while flux is to use flux.As an adjective flux is
{{cx|archaic|lang=en}} Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.flow
English
Noun
Antonyms
* (movement of the tide) ebbExternal links
* (wikipedia "flow") *Verb
(en verb)- Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
- Tears flow from the eyes.
- Wealth flows from industry and economy.
- Those thousand decencies that daily flow / From all her words and actions.
- The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow .
- Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
- In that day the hills shall flow with milk.
- the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl
- a flowing''' mantle; '''flowing locks
- the imperial purple flowing in his train
- The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
- The river hath thrice flowed , no ebb between.
Anagrams
* *flux
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(wikipedia flux)Noun
(es)- By the perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part of them is thrown out of the body.
- The schedule is in flux at the moment.
- Her image has escaped the flux of things, / And that same infant beauty that she wore / Is fixed upon her now forevermore.
- Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux .
- It is important to use flux when soldering or oxides on the metal will prevent a good bond.
- That high a neutron flux would be lethal in seconds.
Antonyms
* (state of ongoing change) stasisDerived terms
* black flux * electric flux * fluxlike * luminous flux * magnetic flux * white fluxVerb
- You have to flux the joint before soldering.
Adjective
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- The flux nature of all things here.
