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  1. fluxionsnoun

    differential calculus

Wikipedia

  1. fluxions

    A fluxion is the instantaneous rate of change, or gradient, of a fluent (a time-varying quantity, or function) at a given point. Fluxions were introduced by Isaac Newton to describe his form of a time derivative (a derivative with respect to time). Newton introduced the concept in 1665 and detailed them in his mathematical treatise, Method of Fluxions. Fluxions and fluents made up Newton's early calculus.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fluxions

    see Fluxion, 6(b)

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Fluxions

    a method, invented by Sir Isaac Newton, of determining the rate of increase or decrease of a quantity or magnitude whose value depends on that of another which itself varies in value at a uniform and given rate. See Calculus, Differential, and Integral.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fluxions in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fluxions in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of fluxions in a Sentence

  1. E. M. Forster:

    Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

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