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Fluxion   Listen
noun
Fluxion  n.  
1.
The act of flowing.
2.
The matter that flows.
3.
Fusion; the running of metals into a fluid state.
4.
(Med.) An unnatural or excessive flow of blood or fluid toward any organ; a determination.
5.
A constantly varying indication. "Less to be counted than the fluxions of sun dials."
6.
(Math.)
(a)
The infinitely small increase or decrease of a variable or flowing quantity in a certain infinitely small and constant period of time; the rate of variation of a fluent; an incerement; a differential.
(b)
pl. A method of analysis developed by Newton, and based on the conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and involving in their changes the notion of velocity or rate of change. Its results are the same as those of the differential and integral calculus, from which it differs little except in notation and logical method.





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"Fluxion" Quotes from Famous Books



... intense solicitude for the fate of the consort and her crew. The fact that she had been dilatory in taking in sail, when no one could know at what instant the squall would break upon her, had indicated a degree of recklessness which increased his anxiety. Mr. Fluxion had been sent to the fore cross-trees with a powerful glass early in the morning, and the Josephine had been discovered by the ship long before the Young America ...
— Dikes and Ditches - Young America in Holland and Belguim • Oliver Optic
... to proclaim the doctrine of the perpetual fluxion of the universe (to reon, to gignomenon—Unrest and Development), the endless changes of matter, and the mutability and perishability of all individual things. This restless, changing flow of things, which never are, but always are becoming, he pronounced to be the ...
— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker
... directly to have parted with its charm, but that a warning and a diffidence arose from so near a visitation. All genuine sailors are blessed with strong faith, as they must be, by nature's compensation. Their bodies continually going up and down upon perpetual fluxion, they never could live if their minds did the same, like the minds of stationary landsmen. Therefore their minds are of stanch immobility, to restore the due share of firm element. And not only that, but these men have compressed (through ...
— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore


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