efflux
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin effluxus, from effluō (“flow out or away”), from ex (“out of, from”) + fluō (“flow”). See also effluxion.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]efflux (countable and uncountable, 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.
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening[1], page 398:
- It is there that the devout affections, undisturbed by other faculties, are incessantly in efflux.
- 1988, Elizabeth Sagey, Degree of closure in complex segments, Norval Smith, Harry van der Hulst (editors), Features, Segmental Structure and Harmony Processes, Part 1, Linguistic Models 12a, page 176,
- The remaining effluxes are pronounced without audible velar release.
- 2003, Awtar Krishan, “Flow cytometric monitoring of drug resistance in human tumor cells”, in R.C. Sobti, A. Krishan, editors, Advanced Flow Cytometry: Applications in Biological Research, page 55:
- By facilitating efflux of drugs from the intracellular domain, these proteins reduce cytotoxicity and thus confer drug resistance.
- That which has flowed out.
- the efflux of a boil
- a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
- Prime cheerer, light! […] Efflux divine.
- 1963, Arnold Reymond, History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity[2], page 31:
- Thus between the earth and the sky there is a perpetual exchange of effluxes following a double way, ascending and descending. From the earth and sea arise effluxes, some dry, others moist.
Synonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]process of flowing out
Verb
[edit]efflux (third-person singular simple present effluxes, present participle effluxing, simple past and past participle effluxed)
- (intransitive) To run out; to flow forth.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To pass away.