Fluence
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Fluency countable, obsolete, uncountable
"a voluble and ſmart fluence of Tongue,"
- 2 A magical or mysterious force; hypnotic power; energy.
"I don't say she would have done anything, if it had come to the point; but the fluence was on, and she got me hot."
- 3 A measure of particle flux (or that of a pulse of electromagnetic radiation) countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"Fluence is the time integral of flux."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From French fluence.
Etymology 2
Shortened form of influence.
Related phrases
More for "fluence"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.