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1. The rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface
    
2. A flow or discharge
   - fluxion [archaic]
    
3. A substance added to molten metals to bond with impurities that can then be readily removed
    
4. Excessive discharge of liquid from a cavity or organ (as in watery diarrhoea)
    
5. A state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action
   "the flux following the death of the emperor";
   - state of flux
    
6. The lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a moving charged particle
   - magnetic field, magnetic flux
    
7. (physics) the number of changes in energy flow across a given surface per unit area
   - flux density
    
8. In constant change
   "his opinions are in flux"; "the newness and flux of the computer industry"

1. Move or progress freely as if in a stream
   "The crowd fluxed out of the stadium";
   - flow
    
2. (physics) become liquid or fluid when heated
   - liquefy, liquify
    
3. Add together different elements
   "The colours flux well";
   - blend, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge

Derived forms: fluxes, fluxing, fluxed

Type of: change, change integrity, chemical, chemical substance, denseness, density, field, field of force, flow, flowing, force field, move, pathology, rate, state

Encyclopedia: Flux