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flʌks/
n.
- the action or process of flowing.
- Medicine an abnormal discharge of blood or other matter from or within the body.
▸archaic diarrhoea or dysentery.
- continuous change.
- Physics the amount of radiation, particles, etc. incident on or passing through an area in a given time.
▸the total electric or magnetic field passing through a surface.
- a substance mixed with a solid to lower the melting point, especially in soldering or smelting.
v.
treat (a metal object) with a flux to promote melting.
Etymology
ME: from L. fluxus, from fluere ‘to flow’.