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		Definition of fluxion in English: fluxionnoun ˈflʌkʃ(ə)nˈfləkʃən 1Mathematics  dated A function corresponding to the rate of change of a variable quantity; a derivative.  Example sentencesExamples -  Leibniz demanded a retraction saying that he had never heard of the calculus of fluxions until he had read the works of Wallis.
 -  For Newton integration consisted of finding fluents for a given fluxion so the fact that integration and differentiation were inverses was implied.
 -  I still must assert that this discovery appears to me to be as important for the middle of the nineteenth century as the discovery of fluxions [the calculus] was for the close of the seventeenth.
 -  He integrated Leibniz's differential calculus and Newton's method of fluxions into mathematical analysis.
 -  He calls the quantity generated by a motion a fluent, and its rate of generation a fluxion.
 
 2archaic mass noun The action or process of flowing or moving continuously; flux. 
 Origin   Late 17th century: from French, or from Latin flux- 'flowed', from the verb fluere.    Definition of fluxion in US English: fluxionnounˈfləkʃənˈfləkSHən 1Mathematics  dated A function corresponding to the rate of change of a variable quantity; a derivative.  Example sentencesExamples -  For Newton integration consisted of finding fluents for a given fluxion so the fact that integration and differentiation were inverses was implied.
 -  He calls the quantity generated by a motion a fluent, and its rate of generation a fluxion.
 -  He integrated Leibniz's differential calculus and Newton's method of fluxions into mathematical analysis.
 -  Leibniz demanded a retraction saying that he had never heard of the calculus of fluxions until he had read the works of Wallis.
 -  I still must assert that this discovery appears to me to be as important for the middle of the nineteenth century as the discovery of fluxions [the calculus] was for the close of the seventeenth.
 
 2archaic The action or process of flowing or moving continuously; flux. 
 Origin   Mid 16th century: from French, or from Latin flux- ‘flowed’, from the verb fluere.     |