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Flux vs Efflux - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between flux and efflux

is that flux is the act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream while efflux is the process of flowing out.

As verbs the difference between flux and efflux

is that flux is to use flux while efflux is to run out.

As an adjective flux

is {{cx|archaic|lang=en}} Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.

flux

English

(wikipedia flux)

Noun

(es)
  • The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
  • * Arbuthnot
    • By the perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part of them is thrown out of the body.
  • A state of ongoing change.
    • The schedule is in flux at the moment.
  • * Trench
    • Her image has escaped the flux of things, / And that same infant beauty that she wore / Is fixed upon her now forevermore.
  • * Felton
    • Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux .
  • A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
    • It is important to use flux when soldering or oxides on the metal will prevent a good bond.
  • (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity) through a given surface, specifically electric flux, magnetic flux.
    • That high a neutron flux would be lethal in seconds.
  • (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.

    • Antonyms

    * (state of ongoing change) stasis

    Derived terms

    * black flux * electric flux * fluxlike * luminous flux * magnetic flux * white flux

    Verb

  • To use flux.
    • You have to flux the joint before soldering.
  • To melt.
  • To flow as a liquid.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
  • * a'' 1677 , (Isaac Barrow), "On Contentment", Sermon XL, in ''The Theological Works , Volume 2, Clarendon Press, 1818, page 375
    • The flux nature of all things here.

    Related terms

    * fluctuant ----

    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.