What is a synonym for "fluxion"?

Common synonyms include: flow, fluency, fluidity, flux, flux, juiciness.

Fluxion

//ˈflʌkʃən// noun, verb

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Noun

1
The derivative of a function. countable, obsolete, uncountable
2
a flow or discharge wordnet
3
The action of flowing. archaic, countable, rare, uncountable
"Perhaps he meant that towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves."
4
A difference or variation. archaic, countable, rare, uncountable

Verb

1
To be distributed in a flowing pattern.
"...pilotaxitic texture connotes abundant plagioclase microlites prominently fluxioned in an overall sub-parallel manner and locally around phenocrysts (but strictly in a holocrystalline non-glassy matrix)."

"Perhaps he meant that towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves."

From Middle French fluxion, from Late Latin fluxiō, from Latin flūxus + -iō.

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