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Inflex vs Inflow - What's the difference?

inflex | inflow |

As verbs the difference between inflex and inflow

is that inflex is to bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect while inflow is to flow in.

As a noun inflow is

the act or process of flowing in or into.

inflex

English

Verb

  • To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.
  • (Webster 1913)

    inflow

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of flowing in or into
  • Anything which flows in or into
  • The inflow of air
  • Influence.
  • *2000 , Sandra Marie Schneiders, Finding the Treasure :
  • But there is also "top down causality" in which the entire system, as a whole, is affected by the inflow or influence of pattern formation, or "information."
  • *2008 , Richard Calichman, Overcoming Modernity :
  • Broadly speaking, there are two cases in which a national culture is subjected to the sudden inflow or influence of a foreign culture: (1) when the former is conquered by the latter and (2) when it conquers the latter.
  • *2010 , Gabriel Ezutah, Trail of Immortality :
  • Open yourself completely to the inflow and influence of the music and light of God through daily practice of the spiritual exercises, which he gives to you.

    Synonyms

    * influx

    Antonyms

    * outflow * outflux

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To flow in.
  • (Wiseman)