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Fluxion

//ˈflʌkʃən// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The derivative of a function. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  2. 2
    a flow or discharge wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    A difference or variation. archaic, countable, rare, uncountable
Verb
  1. 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)."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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