"deflux" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Latin defluxus",
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  "etymology_text": "From Latin defluxus, from defluere, defluxum.",
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          "ref": "1846, Isaac Newton, translated by Andrew Motte, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy/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",
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        "downward flow"
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        "(obsolete) downward flow"
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  "word": "deflux"
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        "(obsolete) downward flow"
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