Flux /(flŭks)/

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.

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

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

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. Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite. (Chem. & Metal.)
5. A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux. (Med.)
6. The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time. (Physics)

1. Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.

   The flux nature of all things here.

imp. & p. p. Fluxed; 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.

2. To cause to become fluid; to fuse.
3. To cause a discharge from; to purge. (Med.)