fluxion
English
Noun
fluxion (countable and uncountable, plural fluxions)
- (obsolete, mathematics) The derivative of a function.
- (rare or archaic) The action of flowing.
- (rare or archaic) A difference or variation.
Verb
fluxion (third-person singular simple present fluxions, present participle fluxioning, simple past and past participle fluxioned)
- (geology) To be distributed in a flowing pattern.
- 1982, Charles James Hughes, Igneous petrology, →ISBN, page 142:
- ...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).
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