fluxとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /flʌks/
• 韻: -ʌks

名詞

flux (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 fluxes)

1. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
   • Arbuthnot

     By the perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part of them is thrown out of the body.

   • Mann, H., Fyfe, W., Tazaki, K., & Kerrich, R. (1991). Biological Accumulation of Different Chemical Elements by Microorganisms from Yellowstone National Park, USA. Mechanisms And Phylogeny Of Mineralization In Biological Systems, 357-362.

     Investigation of the silica budget for the Upper and Lower Geyser Basins of Yellowstone National Park by Truesdell et al. suggest that the present fluxes of hotspring water and thermal energy may have been continuous for at least the past 10,000 yr.

2. A state of ongoing change.

   The schedule is in flux at the moment.

   Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux.

   • Trench

     Her image has escaped the flux of things, / And that same infant beauty that she wore / Is fixed upon her now forevermore.

   • Felton
   • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 55-56:

     Darwin recognized that just as the features of the inorganic world—deltas, river valleys, mountain chains—were brought into being by gradual change, the organic world similarly was subject to constant flux.

3. A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.

   It is important to use flux when soldering or oxides on the metal will prevent a good bond.

4. (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (または another physical quantity) through a given surface, specifically electric flux, magnetic flux.

   That high a neutron flux would be lethal in seconds.

5. (archaic) A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
6. (archaic) Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
7. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.

反意語

• (state of ongoing change): stasis

派生語

動詞

flux (三人称単数 現在形 fluxes, 現在分詞 fluxing, 過去形および過去分詞形 fluxed)

1. (transitive) To use flux on.

   You have to flux the joint before soldering.

2. (transitive) To melt.
3. (intransitive) To flow as a liquid.

関連する語

• fluxion

形容詞

flux (not comparable)

1. (まれに) Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, "On Contentment", Sermon XL, in The Theological Works, Volume 2, Clarendon Press, 1818, page 375:

     The flux nature of all things here.

関連する語

• fluxional

関連する語

• fluctuant