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Answer for the clue "State of ___ (period of uncertainty) ", 4 letters:
flux

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Flux is a software suite released by Media Machines which consists of Flux Player and Flux Studio. Flux Player is a VRML / X3D viewer that works both as plugin in Internet Explorer, and as standalone program in Windows. Flux Studio is a VRML / X3D editor ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "abnormally copious flow," from Old French flus "a flowing, a rolling; a bleeding" (Modern French flux ), or directly from Latin fluxus (adj.) "flowing, loose, slack," past participle of fluere "to flow" (see fluent ). Originally "excessive flow" ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface a flow or discharge [syn: fluxion ] a substance added to molten metals to bond with impurities that can then be readily removed excessive discharge of liquid from a cavity or organ (as in ...

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.