Flux Meaning
/flʌks/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
nounA state of ongoing change.
Sentence Examples
Economic conditions are in a state of flux.
Fluence is the time integral of flux.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The company's future remained in a state of ____ due to many rapid changes.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The political situation is in a state of constant ____, with new developments emerging every hour.
Word Origin & History
From Old French flux, from Latin fluxus (“flow”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"By […]the perpetual Flux of the Liquids, a great part of the Liquids is thrown out of the Body."
— 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC:
"Her image has escaped the flux of things, / And that same infant beauty that she wore / Is fixed upon her now forevermore."
— 1856, Richard Chenevix Trench, On the Death of an Infant:
"Darwin recognized that just as the features of the inorganic world—deltas, river valleys, mountain chains—were brought into being by gradual change, the organic world similarly was subject to constant flux."
— 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, pages 55–56:
"[…] her eldest son, now King Charles III, has assumed the monarch’s role[…]as the anchor of a nation’s identity in troubled times of change and flux."
— 2022 September 19, Alan Cowell, “From Coronation to Funeral: Bookends to the Life of a Queen, and a Generation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
"The next year vvas calamitous, bringing ſtrange fluxes upon men, and murren upon Cattel."
— 1670, John Milton, “The Sixth Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC, page 245:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The company's future remained in a state of ____ due to many rapid changes.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The political situation is in a state of constant ____, with new developments emerging every hour.