flux

flux is a 4-letter English word with 22 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 22 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.
2. noun. The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux.
3. noun. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
4. noun. Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.
5. noun. A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux.
6. noun. The matter thus discharged.
7. noun. The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time.
8. noun. Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
9. transitive verb. To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux.
10. transitive verb. To cause to become fluid; to fuse.
11. transitive verb. To cause a discharge from; to purge.
12. noun. in constant change

    "his opinions are in flux"

    "the newness and flux of the computer industry"

13. noun. (physics) the number of changes in energy flow across a given surface per unit area
14. noun. a flow or discharge

    Synonyms: fluxion

15. noun. the lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a moving charged particle
16. noun. 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"

17. noun. excessive discharge of liquid from a cavity or organ (as in watery diarrhea)
18. noun. a substance added to molten metals to bond with impurities that can then be readily removed
19. noun. the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface
20. verb. mix together different elements

    "The colors blend well"

    Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix

21. verb. become liquid or fluid when heated

    "the frozen fat liquefied"

    Synonyms: liquefy, liquify

22. verb. move or progress freely as if in a stream

    "The crowd flowed out of the stadium"

    Synonyms: flow

Synonyms

fluxion, blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix, liquefy, liquify, flow

Common word forms

fluxed, fluxer, fluxes, fluxing

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