n. 流出, 涨潮, 变迁

vi. 熔化, 流出

vt. 使熔融

[计] 助焊剂

[化] 熔剂; 助熔剂; 通量; 焊剂

[医] 流出, 溢出; 熔剂焊媒; 通量(物)

Flux \Flux\ (fl[u^]ks), n. [L. fluxus, fr. fluere, fluxum, to
flow: cf.F. flux. See {Fluent}, and cf. 1st & 2d {Floss},
{Flush}, n., 6.]
1. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by,
as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.

By the perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part
of them is thrown out of the body. --Arbuthnot.

Her image has escaped the flux of things,
And that same infant beauty that she wore
Is fixed upon her now forevermore. --Trench.

Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux.
--Felton.

2. The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb
being called the {reflux}.

3. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.

4. (Chem. & Metal.) Any substance or mixture used to promote
the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax,
lime, fluorite.

Note: {White flux} is the residuum of the combustion of a
mixture of equal parts of niter and tartar. It consists
chiefly of the carbonate of potassium, and is white. --
{Black flux} is the ressiduum of the combustion of one
part of niter and two of tartar, and consists
essentially of a mixture of potassium carbonate and
charcoal.

5. (Med.)
(a) A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part;
especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the
bloody flux or dysentery. See {Bloody flux}.
(b) The matter thus discharged.

6. (Physics) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area
of a given surface in a unit of time.


Flux \Flux\, a. [L. fluxus, p. p. of fluere. See {Flux}, n.]
Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.

The flux nature of all things here. --Barrow.


Flux \Flux\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fluxed} (fl[u^]kst); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Fluxing}.]
1. To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.

He might fashionably and genteelly . . . have been
dueled or
fluxed into another world. --South.

2. To cause to become fluid; to fuse. --Kirwan.

3. (Med.) To cause a discharge from; to purge.