"deflux" meaning in English

See deflux in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From Latin defluxus, from defluere, defluxum. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|defluxus}} Latin defluxus Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} deflux (uncountable)
  1. (obsolete) downward flow Tags: obsolete, uncountable
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "defluxus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin defluxus",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin defluxus, from defluere, defluxum.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "deflux (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "The cause is a temperate conglutination ; for both bodies are clammy and viscous , and do bridle the deflux of humours to the hurts , without penning them in too much",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1846, Isaac Newton, translated by Andrew Motte, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Mathematical_Principles_of_Natural_Philosophy_(1846)/BookII-VIII):",
          "text": "By the first deflux the ridges of the waves will dilate themselves this way and that way, and be propagated towards KL and NO. And because the motion of the waves from A towards PQ is carried on by a continual deflux from the ridges of the waves into the hollows next to them, and therefore cannot be swifter than in proportion to the celerity of the descent; and the descent of the water on each side towards KL and NO must be performed with the same velocity",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "downward flow"
      ],
      "id": "en-deflux-en-noun-Z9-LWkbk",
      "links": [
        [
          "downward",
          "downward"
        ],
        [
          "flow",
          "flow"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) downward flow"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "deflux"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "defluxus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin defluxus",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin defluxus, from defluere, defluxum.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "deflux (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "English undefined derivations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "The cause is a temperate conglutination ; for both bodies are clammy and viscous , and do bridle the deflux of humours to the hurts , without penning them in too much",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1846, Isaac Newton, translated by Andrew Motte, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Mathematical_Principles_of_Natural_Philosophy_(1846)/BookII-VIII):",
          "text": "By the first deflux the ridges of the waves will dilate themselves this way and that way, and be propagated towards KL and NO. And because the motion of the waves from A towards PQ is carried on by a continual deflux from the ridges of the waves into the hollows next to them, and therefore cannot be swifter than in proportion to the celerity of the descent; and the descent of the water on each side towards KL and NO must be performed with the same velocity",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "downward flow"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "downward",
          "downward"
        ],
        [
          "flow",
          "flow"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) downward flow"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "deflux"
}

Download raw JSONL data for deflux meaning in English (2.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.