[mass noun]the action or process of flowing or flowing out 流,涌流;流出 the flux of men and women moving back and forth. 来来往往的男男女女。 [count noun]a localized flux of calcium into the cell. 进入细胞的局限性钙流。 ■[count noun](Medicine)an abnormal discharge of blood or other matter from or within the body (医)(血等)流出,溢出 ■(一般作 the flux)(archaic)diarrhoea or dysentery (古)腹泻;痢疾
continuous change 不断变化,波动 the whole political system is in a state of flux. 整个政治体制飘忽不定。
(Physics)the rate of flow of a fluid, radiant energy, or particles across a given area (物理)通量,能流 ■the amount of radiation or particles incident on an area in a given time 辐射(或粒子)通量 ■the total electric or magnetic field passing through a surface 电通量;磁通量
a substance mixed with a solid to lower its melting point, used especially in soldering and brazing metals or to promote vitrification in glass or ceramics 熔剂,焊剂 ■a substance added to a furnace during metal smelting or glass-making which combines with impurities to form slag 造渣
verb
[with obj.]treat (a metal object) with a flux to promote melting 用焊(或熔)剂处理
语源
late Middle English: from Latin fluxus, from fluere 'to flow'