flux: [14] Flux denotes generally ‘flowing’, and comes from Latin fluxus, a derivative of the past participle of fluere ‘flow’. This verb, similar in form and meaning to English flow but in fact unrelated to it, is responsible for a very wide range of English words: its past participle has given us fluctuate [17], its present participle fluent [16] and a spectrum of derived forms, such as affluent, effluent [18], and influence, and other descendants include fluid [15] (literally ‘flowing’, from Latin fluidus), mellifluous (literally ‘flowing with honey’), superfluous [15], and fluvial [14] (from Latin fluvius ‘river’, a derivative of fluere).
Latin fluxus also produced the card-playing term flush [16]. => affluent, effluent, fluctuate, fluent, fluid, influence, mellifluous, superfluous
flux (n.)
late 14c., "abnormally copious flow," from Old French flus "a flowing, a rolling; a bleeding" (Modern French flux), or directly from Latin fluxus (adj.) "flowing, loose, slack," past participle of fluere "to flow" (see fluent). Originally "excessive flow" (of blood or excrement), it also was an early name for "dysentery;" sense of "continuous succession of changes" is first recorded 1620s. The verb is early 15c., from the noun.
雙語例句
1. Both quantum mechanics and chaos theory suggest a world constantly in flux.
量子力學和混沌理論都表明世界永遠處于不斷變化中。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Our society is in a state of flux .
我們的社會在不斷演變。
來自《權威詞典》
3. The market is in a constant state of flux.
市場行情在不斷變化.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
4. Events are in a state of flux.
事情在不斷變化中.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. FLUX was used to find out the relation between stationary magnetic field and excitation current.