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• IPA: /ˈɹiː.flʌks/

名詞

reflux (countable and uncountable, plural refluxes)

1. The backwards flow of any fluid.

   Synonyms: backflow, backflux

   Hypernyms: flow, flux

   • 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:

     […] after a little way out to sea, there was a current and wind, always one way in the morning, the other in the afternoon. This I understood to be no more than the sets of the tide, as going out or coming in; but I afterwards understood it was occasioned by the great draft and reflux of the mighty river Orinoco […]

2. (chemistry) A technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period.
3. (pathology) The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus.

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reflux (third-person singular simple present refluxes, present participle refluxing, simple past and past participle refluxed)

1. To flow back or return.

   Synonyms: backflow, backflux

   Hypernyms: flow, flux

   the refluxing tide

2. To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser.