influx
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɪnˌflʌks/
Noun
influx (countable and uncountable, plural influxes)
- A flow inward or into something; a coming in.
- Synonyms: infusion, intromission, introduction, importation
- I'll buy a new computer when I get an influx of cash.
- Earle
- the general influx of Greek into modern languages
- That which flows or comes in.
- Macaulay
- The influx of food into the Celtic region, however, was far from keeping pace with the influx of consumers.
- Macaulay
- (obsolete) influence; power.
- Sir Matthew Hale
- In this sense it is now not used. Adam, in innocence, might have held, by the continued influx of the divine will and power, a state of immortality.
- Sir Matthew Hale
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for influx in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Synonyms
Translations
inward flow
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