Flux
noun
A state of continuous change or motion.
Universities are often in flux because new students come every year.
Often appears as...
- in flux
- state of flux
noun
The amount or rate of flow of a liquid or gas.
In physics, flux is the amount of energy or particles passing through a surface.
Often appears as...
- magnetic flux
- heat flux
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Technical
noun
A type of substance used in welding and soldering to clean metal surfaces and make them combine.
He applied the flux to the wire before soldering it.
Often appears as...
- apply flux
- flux residue
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Technical
noun
A serious disease in farm animals, especially sheep, that cause diarrhea.
The farmer called a veterinarian because the sheep had flux.
Often appears as...
- treat flux
- flux in sheep
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Technical
noun
A state of continuous change or motion.
Universities are often in flux because new students come every year.
Often appears as...
- in flux
- state of flux
noun
The amount or rate of flow of a liquid or gas.
In physics, flux is the amount of energy or particles passing through a surface.
Often appears as...
- magnetic flux
- heat flux
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A type of substance used in welding and soldering to clean metal surfaces and make them combine.
He applied the flux to the wire before soldering it.
Often appears as...
- apply flux
- flux residue
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A serious disease in farm animals, especially sheep, that cause diarrhea.
The farmer called a veterinarian because the sheep had flux.
Often appears as...
- treat flux
- flux in sheep
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Metaphoric Use
The word 'flux' is often used metaphorically to describe situations that are unstable or changing.
During the merger, company policies were in a state of flux.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Overtones
'Flux' may suggest uncertainty or lack of control, potentially causing anxiety.
His emotions were in flux as he awaited the job interview results.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Processes
'Flux' can be used to describe natural processes symbolizing transformation or growth.
The landscape is in constant flux due to erosion and vegetation growth.
Pro Tip 1/3Metaphoric Use
The word 'flux' is often used metaphorically to describe situations that are unstable or changing.
During the merger, company policies were in a state of flux.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Overtones
'Flux' may suggest uncertainty or lack of control, potentially causing anxiety.
His emotions were in flux as he awaited the job interview results.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Processes
'Flux' can be used to describe natural processes symbolizing transformation or growth.
The landscape is in constant flux due to erosion and vegetation growth.
Pro Tip 1/3Metaphoric Use
The word 'flux' is often used metaphorically to describe situations that are unstable or changing.
During the merger, company policies were in a state of flux.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Overtones
'Flux' may suggest uncertainty or lack of control, potentially causing anxiety.
His emotions were in flux as he awaited the job interview results.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Processes
'Flux' can be used to describe natural processes symbolizing transformation or growth.
The landscape is in constant flux due to erosion and vegetation growth.
Compare with
changeflowfluctuateinconstancyinstabilitypredictabilityturbulencevariability
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How do you explain...
but you can take them to be describing the flux of consciousness. That's what physics really is ultimately doing, describing the flux of consciousness. On this view, it's consciousness that puts the fire into the equations. On that view, consciousness doesn't dangle outside the physical world as some kind of extra.
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These Indoor Wildfires...
important for us to study the specific fuel here because it's such a great contributor to the wildfires that we get in the region wind tunnel is instrumented with a barrage of instruments that includes temperature probes or thermocouples heat flux sensors relative humidity sensors
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How plants tell time -...
These biological clocks allow organisms to keep track of time and pick up on environmental cues that help them adapt. That's important, because the planet's rotations and revolutions put us in a state of constant flux, although it plays out in a repetitive, predictable way.
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Cell membranes are way...
First of all, it's tempting to think of a cell membrane like the tight skin of a balloon, but it's actually something much more complex. In reality, it's constantly in flux, shifting components back and forth to help the cell take in food,
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Stunning Moonlight...
the Stars and to banishing night we have the super flux of artificial lighting now that interferes with all sorts of natural rhythms our own included but especially over the past two centuries we've evolved lots of ways
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What can we learn from...
as someone did here. Someone installed a barrier, people started walking across and round the bottom as you see, and they paved it. But I think this is a wonderful reminder as well, that, actually, the world is in flux.
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Exploring a Deadly Cave...
protect the eyes as I balls can scorch in the caves heat we know that an extreme condition only passive system can work this is essentially battle of field of ice where there is a flux of
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The invisible motion of...
Many of the inanimate objects around you probably seem perfectly still. But look deep into the atomic structure of any of them, and you'll see a world in constant flux.
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Daniel J. Watts: To...
The world finally stops. And because everything is in flux, I am forced to take a much-needed reprieve as that mysterious illness has been granted an extension.
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Racism thrives on...
They put the world in flux, because what has been seen cannot be unseen. So right now is a historic moment of change. Now is the time to take action
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How do you explain...
but you can take them to be describing the flux of consciousness. That's what physics really is ultimately doing, describing the flux of consciousness. On this view, it's consciousness that puts the fire into the equations. On that view, consciousness doesn't dangle outside the physical world as some kind of extra.
Video examples
These Indoor Wildfires...
important for us to study the specific fuel here because it's such a great contributor to the wildfires that we get in the region wind tunnel is instrumented with a barrage of instruments that includes temperature probes or thermocouples heat flux sensors relative humidity sensors
Video examples
How plants tell time -...
These biological clocks allow organisms to keep track of time and pick up on environmental cues that help them adapt. That's important, because the planet's rotations and revolutions put us in a state of constant flux, although it plays out in a repetitive, predictable way.
Video examples
Cell membranes are way...
First of all, it's tempting to think of a cell membrane like the tight skin of a balloon, but it's actually something much more complex. In reality, it's constantly in flux, shifting components back and forth to help the cell take in food,
Video examples
Stunning Moonlight...
the Stars and to banishing night we have the super flux of artificial lighting now that interferes with all sorts of natural rhythms our own included but especially over the past two centuries we've evolved lots of ways
Video examples
What can we learn from...
as someone did here. Someone installed a barrier, people started walking across and round the bottom as you see, and they paved it. But I think this is a wonderful reminder as well, that, actually, the world is in flux.
Video examples
Exploring a Deadly Cave...
protect the eyes as I balls can scorch in the caves heat we know that an extreme condition only passive system can work this is essentially battle of field of ice where there is a flux of
Video examples
The invisible motion of...
Many of the inanimate objects around you probably seem perfectly still. But look deep into the atomic structure of any of them, and you'll see a world in constant flux.
Video examples
Daniel J. Watts: To...
The world finally stops. And because everything is in flux, I am forced to take a much-needed reprieve as that mysterious illness has been granted an extension.
Video examples
Racism thrives on...
They put the world in flux, because what has been seen cannot be unseen. So right now is a historic moment of change. Now is the time to take action
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Walter Gropius
German Architect
My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.
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Troy Carter
American Producer
Being born in the adolescent years of hip hop helped us learn about flux. And when you're in an industry that is constantly growing, changing, maturing... you get a chance to try different things out and a chance to fail.
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Frederick Reines
American Physicist
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.
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Johann Johannsson
Icelander Composer
Making 'Orphee' has been a true labour of love, one that has been a part of my life for six years, and yet the music always remained fresh - it was constantly in a state of flux and renewal.
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William James
American Philosopher
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.
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James G. Frazer
Scottish Scientist
The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
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Rachael Leigh Cook
American Actress
When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.
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John Locke
English Philosopher
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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Karen Salmansohn
American Author
If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French Philosopher
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
Quote examples
Walter Gropius
German Architect
My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.
Quote examples
Troy Carter
American Producer
Being born in the adolescent years of hip hop helped us learn about flux. And when you're in an industry that is constantly growing, changing, maturing... you get a chance to try different things out and a chance to fail.
Quote examples
Frederick Reines
American Physicist
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.
Quote examples
Johann Johannsson
Icelander Composer
Making 'Orphee' has been a true labour of love, one that has been a part of my life for six years, and yet the music always remained fresh - it was constantly in a state of flux and renewal.
Quote examples
William James
American Philosopher
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.
Quote examples
James G. Frazer
Scottish Scientist
The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
Quote examples
Rachael Leigh Cook
American Actress
When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.
Quote examples
John Locke
English Philosopher
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
Quote examples
Karen Salmansohn
American Author
If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French Philosopher
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
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