fluxion

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fluxion

/ˈflʌkʃən/

Rhymes with -ʌkʃən

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From Middle French fluxion, from Late Latin fluxiō, from Latin flūxus + -iō.

noun fluxions

countable, obsolete, uncountable The derivative of a function.
archaic, countable, rare, uncountable The action of flowing. Perhaps he meant that towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
archaic, countable, rare, uncountable A difference or variation.

verb fluxions · fluxioning · fluxioned

To be distributed in a flowing pattern. ...pilotaxitic texture connotes abundant plagioclase microlites prominently fluxioned in an overall sub-parallel manner and locally around phenocrysts (but strictly in a holocrystalline non-glassy matrix).

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@misc{fluxion_2026,
  title = {fluxion},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fluxion},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}