fluxion

American  

[fluhk-shuhn] / ˈflʌk ʃən /

noun

1. an act of flowing; a flow or flux.

2. Mathematics.  the derivative relative to the time.

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fluxion British  

/ ˈflʌkʃən /

noun

1. obsolete  maths the rate of change of a function, especially the instantaneous velocity of a moving body; derivative

2. a less common word for flux flux

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Other Word Forms

• fluxional adjective
• fluxionally adverb
• fluxionary adjective

Etymology

Origin of fluxion

1535–45; < Middle French < Late Latin fluxiōn- (stem of fluxiō ) a flowing. See flux, -ion

Example Sentences

It should hardly be offensive to an ordinary man to be told, or at least to find it tacitly assumed, that he could not have invented fluxions, painted like Rembrandt, or sung like Pindar.

From Project Gutenberg

Though he experienced some difficulty at his first entrance, yet he did not rest till he made himself master of both a fluxion and a flowing quantity.

From Project Gutenberg

Newton's discovery of the law of gravitation, and his theory of fluxions place him at the head of the mathematical thinkers of the world.

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They had not learned the use of logarithms, and were ignorant of fluxions.

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In 1687, Newton's method of fluxions was first published, twenty years after its invention, and then because the friends of Leibnitz, the author of the "Differential Calculus," claimed priority of discovery.

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