单词 | water flux |
释义 | > as lemmaswater flux water flux n. †(a) Medicine excessive production of urine, spec. that occurring in diabetes (obsolete rare); (b) the flow of water (as in a pipe, watercourse, etc.) or the passage of water through a membrane; the amount or rate of this. ΚΠ 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 459 Both were named indifferently diabetes, dipsacus from the accompanying thirst, urinary diarrhœa, urinal dropsy, and hyderus..or water-flux. 1878 Detroit Lancet 68 668 All these writers described this affection as a species of water flux, or lientery, from the rapidity with which the fluids and solids of the body seemed to be converted to a crude and liquid mass. 1903 H. J. Ryan et al. Text-bk. Electr. Machinery I. i. 7 The lines drawn in the figure represent the direction of the water flux. 1950 Plant Physiol. 25 422 Frequently the rate of water flux is limited by the differential permeability of the protoplasmic membrane. 2005 Nature 14 Apr. 831/1 The Bering (1Be = 103 km3 yr−1) is a convenient unit of water flux for large-scale hydrological studies. < as lemmas |
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