Flux
The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.
The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux.
The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.
A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux.
The matter thus discharged.
The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.
Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.
To cause to become fluid; to fuse.
To cause a discharge from; to purge.
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Flux Quotations
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
John Locke
'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
William James
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
George Soros
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
Hannah Arendt
Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.
Robert Collier
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
David Herbert Lawrence
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
Susan Sontag
You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.
Don Johnson
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Camille Paglia
Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.
Robert Byrne
The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Most of these experiments required the reduction of the cosmic ray muon flux in order to be successful, and the group necessarily became expert in the operation of deep underground laboratories.
Frederick Reines
When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.
Rachael Leigh Cook
Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
Ralph Cudworth
The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
James G. Frazer
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Flux Translations
flux in Italian is fluviale
flux in Spanish is flujo
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