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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flux \Flux\ (fl[u^]ks), n. [L. fluxus, fr. fluere, fluxum, to flow: cf.F. flux. See Fluent , and cf. 1st & 2d Floss , Flush , n., 6.] The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change. By the perpetual ...

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Flux is a 1993 science fiction novel by British author Stephen Baxter . It is the third book in Baxter's Xeelee Sequence .

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE constant ▪ The discussion in this chapter should not suggest that the entire rural populace is in constant flux . ▪ In continental plate tectonics what seems static, the surface of the earth, is in reality in constant ...

Usage examples of flux.

It was still basically a Flux area and anything done to it now would simply be negated by his people when the big amps arrived.

Will of God is able to cope with the ceaseless flux and escape of body stuff by ceaselessly reintroducing the known forms in new substances, thus ensuring perpetuity not to the particular item but to the unity of idea: now, seeing that objects of this realm possess no more than duration of form, why should celestial objects, and the celestial system itself, be distinguished by duration of the particular entity?

The Will of God is able to cope with the ceaseless flux and escape of body stuff by ceaselessly reintroducing the known forms in new substances, thus ensuring perpetuity not to the particular item but to the unity of idea: now, seeing that objects of this realm possess no more than duration of form, why should celestial objects, and the celestial system itself, be distinguished by duration of the particular entity?

From the intensity of the decimeter and decameter emission, astronomers also calculated what the energies and fluxes of electrons and protons in the Jovian magneto-sphere might be.

He could see the deep bands of equatorial emissions and had to tone down the decametric and kilometric radio roar coming from the flux tube itself.

Somewhere deep within that Wall, in the Flux reality corresponding to the inside of that nebula, three deep-space Mu-Laan glassfish floated serenely, presumably pleased to have disposed of the latest intruders.

DOOM PATROL deploys against them its vision of crazed flux in a decentered, goofily hyperreal world.

Flux, even the maddest of Fluxlords had been faced with the realization that his or her power came not from divine providence but from the remnants of the technology of an ancient civilization whose machines still worked and that their power could be threatened by other technology being rediscovered all the time in ancient files and records.

What if it was some manifestation of the Meissner field, a flux of energy being released when whatever secret was sealed here?

In the fusion methods the ore must be very finely powdered, well mixed with the fluxes, and subjected to a prolonged fusion in a platinum vessel at a high temperature.

Over the course of six days,members of the group placed twenty-seven nonexplosive flux pods inthe buildings surrounding the Exchange.

Prophets their realm of nonlinear time was without past, present, and future, it was that the past and present coexisted interchangeably within a third dimension of time, with only the future in flux.

This somatic outing borders on metamorphosis: the glands are like walnuts, and the bird tuberculosis has an almost Ovidian flavor to it, in addition to a scary sense of flight and flux, so that even the dead body in the casket is disturbingly active and on the move, a potent agent of transmission.

That was the Reld Current, a smooth-running river deeply submerged in the multilayered sea of the Flux.

Chief seismographer Elliott explained patiently that this was because an iceberg, unlike a section of Texas prairie, for instance, was always in a state of flux.