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Oversupply vs Reflux - What's the difference?

oversupply | reflux |

As verbs the difference between oversupply and reflux

is that oversupply is to supply more than is needed while reflux is to boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser.

As nouns the difference between oversupply and reflux

is that oversupply is an excessive supply while reflux is the backwards flow of any fluid.

oversupply

English

Verb

  • To supply more than is needed
  • Noun

    (oversupplies)
  • An excessive supply.
  • *2012 , (Jurek Martin), ‘A Singular President’, Literary Review , 401:
  • *:He does not like twisting arms, LBJ's forte, preferring the force of reason, a commodity not in over-supply in the nation's capital.
  • reflux

    English

    (wikipedia reflux)

    Noun

    (es)
  • the backwards flow of any fluid
  • * 1719-
  • ...after a little way out to sea, there was a current and wind, always one way in the morning, the other in the afternoon. This I understood to be no more than the sets of the tide, as going out or coming in; but I afterwards understood it was occasioned by the great draft and reflux of the mighty river Orinoco...
  • (chemistry) a technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period
  • (pathology) The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus
  • Derived terms

    * gastroesophageal reflux * nonreflux * reflux condenser * refluxate

    Verb

  • To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser