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A flowing together; a meeting of currents. "The conflux of meeting sap." Shak.

The tendency of fluids to run together. [R.] Boyle.

Inclined to flow or run together. --Con*flux"i*ble*ness, n.

Downward flow. [Obs.] Bacon.

A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation. Dunglison.

See Luxe.

The act or process of flowing out, or issuing forth; effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety. It is then that the devout affections . . . are incessantly in efflux. I. Taylor.

That which flows out; effluvium; emanation. Some light effluxions from spirit to spirit. Bacon.

To dislocate; to luxate.

Dislocation; luxation.

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 bodi…

The act of fluxing.

The quality of being fluxible. Hammond.

Capable of being melted or fused, as a mineral. Holland. -- Flux"i*ble*ness, n.

Fluxible. [R.]

State of being fluxible.[Obs.]

A constantly varying indication. Less to be counted than the fluxions of sun dials. De Quincey.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant. The merely human,the temporary and fluxional. Coleridge. Fluxional structure (Geol.), fluidal structure.

Fluxional. Berkeley.