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Fluxion

Fluxion \Flux"ion\, n. [Cf. F. fluxion.] The act of flowing. --Cotgrave. 2. The matter that flows. --Wiseman. 3. Fusion; the running of metals into a fluid state. 4. (Med.) An unnatural or excessive flow of blood or fluid toward any organ; a determination. 5. A constantly varying indication. Less to be counted than the fluxions of sun dials. --De Quincey. 6. (Math.)

  1. The infinitely small increase or decrease of a variable or flowing quantity in a certain infinitely small and constant period of time; the rate of variation of a fluent; an incerement; a differential.

  2. pl. A method of analysis developed by Newton, and based on the conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and involving in their changes the notion of velocity or rate of change. Its results are the same as those of the differential and integral calculus, from which it differs little except in notation and logical method.

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fluxion

n. 1 (context obsolete mathematics English) The derivative of a function 2 (context rare or archaic English) The action of flowing vb. (context geology English) To be distributed in a flowing pattern.

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fluxion

n. a flow or discharge [syn: flux]

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Fluxion

Fluxion may refer to:

  • In Newton's notation, the derivative of a continuous function
    • Method of Fluxions, Isaac Newton's book on differential calculus
  • An alternate spelling of fluxon, a quantum of magnetic flux
  • Fluxion (electronic musician), Konstantinos Soublis
  • Fluxion (album), The Ocean Collective's first LP
Fluxion (album)

Fluxion is the debut album by German metal band The Ocean, released in November, 2004. It is the first part of a two-CD project that ended with Aeolian. The album was re-released in 2009 with new vocal tracks by then-lead vocalist Mike Pilat.

Fluxion (electronic musician)

Fluxion' is a pseudonym of Konstantinos Soublis (born 1973), a Greek electronic musician.

Usage examples of "fluxion".

Daniel passes an extraordinarily pleasant half-hour turning Dappa’s steady observations into sines and cosines, conic sections and fluxions.

Players of Null-A, the Prelude to Space, Thunder and Roses, Armageddon, the Time Machine, the Mason' Word, the Monkey Business, the Works, the Eight of Swords, Gorilla Warfare, the Box Lunch, the Primate Kingdom, the New Aeon, the Enola Gay, the Octet Truss, the Stochastic Process, the Fluxions, the Burning House, the Phantom Captain, the Decline of the West, the Duelists, the Call of the Wild, Consciousness III, the Reorganized Church of the Latter-Day Saints, Standard Oil of Ohio, the Zig-Zag Men, the Rubble Risers, the Children of Ra, TNT, Acceptable Radiation, the Pollution Level, the Great Beast, the Whores of Babylon, the Waste Land, the Ugly Truth, the Final .

Jack Smith, the Fluxion an critic, looking like an undertaker with chronic gastritis.

In this light I view the conic sections, curves of the higher orders, perhaps even spherical trigonometry, algebraical operations beyond the 2d dimension, and fluxions.

As soon as he recovered from the shock he submitted his resignation to the Daily Fluxion and made arrangements to move to Pickax City, the county seat, thirty miles from Mooseville.

The Fluxion might run a feature story to tie in with your exhibition.

For those who know how to read between the lines, this is sufficient to prove Newton had the calculus—or Fluxions, as he called it—in ’65, most likely ’64.

But before the trees had blossomed for the fourth time since Baudolino had met him, Otto was reduced to a shadow of himself by malarial fevers, pains in all his joints, fluxions of the chest, not to mention gallstone.

Aeon, the Enola Gay, the Octet Truss, the Stochastic Process, the Fluxions, the Burning House, the Phantom Captain, the Decline of the West, the Duelists, the Call of the Wild, Consciousness III, the Reorganized Church of the Latter-Day Saints, Standard Oil of Ohio, the Zig-Zag Men, the Rubble Risers, the Children of Ra, TNT, Acceptable Radiation, the Pollution Level, the Great Beast, the Whores of Babylon, the Waste Land, the Ugly Truth, the Final Diagnosis, Solution Unsatisfactory, the Heat Death of the Universe, Mere Noise, I Opening, the Nine Unknown Men, the Horse of Another Color, the Falling Rock Zone, the Ascent of the Serpent, Reddy Willing and Unable, the Civic Monster, Hercules and the Tortoise, the Middle Pillar, the Deleted Expletive, Deep Quote, LuCiFeR, the Dog Star, Nuthin' Sirius, and Preparation H.

What's more - fellow staffers at the Fluxion would never believe this - he had draperies on the windows, installed by Amanda's Studio of Interior Design.

I'm a staff writer for the Daily Fluxion, and I'm going to report this to the managing editor.

And still these men had asked nothing about the binomial theorem or the method of fluxions as the basis of calculus, and they had laughed at his codification of the quantitative laws of universal dynamics.

Players of Null-A, the Prelude to Space, Thunder and Roses, Armageddon, the Time Machine, the Mason' Word, the Monkey Business, the Works, the Eight of Swords, Gorilla Warfare, the Box Lunch, the Primate Kingdom, the New Aeon, the Enola Gay, the Octet Truss, the Stochastic Process, the Fluxions, the Burning House, the Phantom Captain, the Decline of the West, the Duelists, the Call of the Wild, Consciousness III, the Reorganized Church of the Latter-Day Saints, Standard Oil of Ohio, the Zig-Zag Men, the Rubble Risers, the Children of Ra, TNT, Acceptable Radiation, the Pollution Level, the Great Beast, the Whores of Babylon, the Waste Land, the Ugly Truth, the Final Diagnosis, Solution Unsatisfactory, the Heat Death of the Universe, Mere Noise, I Opening, the Nine .