- a flowing out, or emanating
- a thing that flows out; outflow; emanation
- an ending; expiration
Also ef·flux′ion
Origin of efflux
from Classical Latin effluxus, past participle of effluere: see effluence
noun
- When water is flowing out of a river inlet and into a larger stream that is nearby, this is an example of efflux.
- The water that is flowing out of a river and into a larger body of water is an example of efflux.
Efflux is defined as something that is defined as flowing out or the process of flowing out.
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efflux
noun
- A flowing outward.
- Something that flows out or forth; an effluence.
- A passing or an expiration, as of time.
Origin of efflux
From Latin efflūxus past participle of effluere to flow out ; see effluent .Related Forms:
- ef·flux′ion
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Noun
(plural effluxes)
- The process of flowing out.
- We all age through the efflux of time.
- The efflux of matter from a boil can be painful.
- That which has flowed out.
- the efflux of a boil
Verb
(third-person singular simple present effluxes, present participle effluxing, simple past and past participle effluxed)
- To run out.
- To flow forth.
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Sentence Examples
- Here the divine will is viewed as an efflux from the divine wisdom, as the intermediate link between God, the first substance, and all things, and as the fountain out of which all forms emanate.
- Besides the delta of the Po and the large marshy tracts which it forms, there exist on both sides of it extensive lagoons of salt water, generally separated from the Adriatic by narrow strips of sand or embankments, partly natural and partly artificial, but havin openings which admit the influx and efflux of the sea-water, and serve as ports for communication with the mainland.
- Individual souls are an efflux from the all-compassing world-soul.
- Helmholtz, of the efflux of a jet between two edges A and A 1 in an infinite wall, is obtained by the symmetrical duplication of the above, with n = 1, b = o, a' = - oo, as in fig.
- Generally, by making a' = -oo, the line x'A' may be taken as a straight stream line of infinite length, forming an axis of symmetry; and then by duplica tion the result can be ob A tained, with assigned n, a, and b, of the efflux from a symmetrical converging FIG.
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