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AFFLUX

Definition: AFFLUX

AFFLUX

Noun

1. A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "AFFLUX" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)

Etymology: Afflux \Af"flux`\, noun. [Latin expression affluxum, past participle of affluere: compare to the French expression afflux. See Affluence.]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: AFFLUX

DomainDefinitions

Geography

A rise in the water level immediately upstream of and due to a natural or artificial obstruction. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: AFFLUX

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Approach

Noun: approach, approximation, appropinquation; access; appulse; afflux, affluxion; advent; (approach of time); pursuit.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: AFFLUX

English words defined with "AFFLUX": Affluxion. (references)
Non-English Usage: "AFFLUX" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (flood, high tide), French (afflux, congestion, flood, high tide, inflow, inflowing, influx, inrush, pour, rush, surge).

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Modern Translations: AFFLUX

Language Translations for "AFFLUX"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

mëngë (arm, branch, confluent, Creek, sleeve), fluks, baticë (flood tide, flow, flux, high tide, influx, springtide, tide, water). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تدفق (affluence, bubble, discharge, drift, flow, flowing, fluency, flux, gush, inflow, influx, inrush, issue, jet, onrush, outbreak, outflow, outpouring, pour, roll, shoot, shoot up, slop, spirt, spout, spurt, stream, surge, throng), ‏دفق (effluence, effluent, flow, flux, inflow, inflowing, influx, outflow, outpouring, pour, pump, race, river, slop, stream, well). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

стечение (concourse, concurrence), приток (affluence, affluent, confluent, feeder, indraft, indraught, influent, influx, subsidiary stream, supply, tributary), прилив (flood, flood tide, flow, flux, inflow, inset, onrush, rush, waft). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

汇流. (various references)

   

Danish

  

haevning af vandspejlet (heading-up). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

toestroming (heading-up). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tulvaveden korkeusero padon ylä-ja alajuoksulla (heading-up). (various references)

   

French

  

afflux, retenue, remous d'exhaussement, remous, exhaussement. (various references)

   

German

  

Aufstau (backwater), Zufluss (affluent, conflux, contributing river, heading-up, inflow, influx, inlet, supply, tributary, tributary affluent, tributary river, tributary stream), Rückstau (backlock, backwater, tailback). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ύψωση σταθμήσ ύδατοσ, συρροή (abundance, accumulation, concourse, concurrence, confluent, conflux, conjunction, flush), υπερυψωμένη στάθμη υψηλών υδάτων ανάντη και κατάντη εκχειλιστού (heading-up), διαφορά στάθμης υψηλών υδάτων ανάντη και κατάντη εκχειλιστού (heading-up). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

véráram, beömlés (indraft, indraught, influx). (various references)

   

Italian

  

afflusso (flow, flush, inflow, influx, inpouring), affluenza (abundance, affluence, concourse, crowd, flow, influx, mass, multitude, plenty, throng), ritenuta (back rope, backwater, man-made lake, reservoir, retention, storage), ristagno (backwater, doldrums, lull, slack period, stagnation, stasis), rigurgito (backwater, heading-up, regurgiotation, regurgitation, revival, vomiting), dislivello (difference, difference in level, difference of level, dip, drop, heading-up, inequality, travel, unevenness). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

流入 (influx). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

りゅうにゅう (influx). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

affluxay

   

Portuguese

  

agrupamento de pessoas (junta, junto, reunion), afluxo (congregate, inflow, inflowing, inform), afluência (abundance, affluence, arising quantity, confluence, conflux, flush, indraft, indraught, inflowing, influx, onflow, throng), remanso (backwater, heading-up), concorrência (competition, concurrence, concurrency, DG IV, emulation, rivalry). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

aflux (influx, rush). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

конгестия, прилив крови (flush), прилив (boss, flood tide, flow, flux, high tide, rush, tide, tongue). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

priticanje (affluence, indraft, indraught), priliv (influx), nagomilavanje (agglomeration, conglomeration, lodgment, stockpiling). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

aflujo, afluencia (affluence, flow, inflow, influx, inrush, rush), remanso o diferencia de nivel de crecidas entre aguas arriba y aguas abajo de un vertedero (heading-up). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vattenståndshöjning (heading-up), tillströmning (concourse, inflow, influx), tillflöde (affluent, feeder, inflow, influx, tributary, tributary affluent, tributary river, tributary stream). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

akıntı (chute, circulation, current, drift, effluence, effluent, flow, flux, issue, race, stream), akın (exodus, flow, foray, incursion, inflow, influent, influx, inroad, inrush, invasion, irruption, raid, razzia, rush, spate), akış (course, efflux, flight, flow, flux, gliding, inflow, influx, passage, pour, river, run, tenor, tide), kan toplanması (congestion, hypostasis, plethora), kan hücumu (congestion). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

впуск (admission, intromission), прилив (onrush), приплив (affluence, back water, flood, flow, flux, inflow, inflowing, influx, onflow, onrush). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự chảy tụ lại, sự chảy d"n. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: AFFLUX

Derivations

Words beginning with "AFFLUX": affluxes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"AFFLUX" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aflex, aflu, iflux, sarflax. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: AFFLUX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-f-l-u-x"

-1 letter: luffa.

-2 letters: falx, faux, flax, flux, luff.

-3 letters: aff, fax, flu, lax, lux.

-4 letters: al, ax, fa, la, xu.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-f-l-u-x"
 

+2 letters: affluxes, suffixal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: AFFLUX


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 46 46 4C 55 58

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    ..-.    ..-.    .-..    ..-    -..-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000110 01000110 01001100 01010101 01011000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#70 &#70 &#76 &#85 &#88

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0046 0046 004C 0055 0058

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

354040465558

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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