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Fluxed vs Luxed - What's the difference?

fluxed | luxed |

As verbs the difference between fluxed and luxed

is that fluxed is (flux) while luxed is (lux).

fluxed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (flux)

    • 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 ----

    luxed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (lux)

    • lux

    English

    (wikipedia lux)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (English light).

    Noun

    (lux)
  • In the International System of Units, the derived unit of illuminance or illumination; one lumen per square metre. Symbol: lx

    • Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) luxer. See luxate.

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) To put out of joint; to luxate.
    • (Webster 1913) ----