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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈflʌkʃən/
• 韻: -ʌkʃən

名詞

fluxion (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 fluxions)

1. (obsolete, mathematics) The derivative of a function.
2. (rare or archaic) The action of flowing.
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part III, XXXIII [Uniform ed., p. 299]:

     Perhaps he meant that towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

3. (rare or archaic) A difference or variation.

動詞

fluxion (三人称単数 現在形 fluxions, 現在分詞 fluxioning, 過去形および過去分詞形 fluxioned)

1. (geology) To be distributed in a flowing pattern.
   • 1982, Charles James Hughes, Igneous petrology, →ISBN, page 142:

     ...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).

派生語

• fluxional