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floe, flow, flux
floe (FLOH) (noun)
A flat mass of floating ice: A floe was making the ship's progress quite difficult.
flow (FLOW) (verb)
To move smoothly, as in a stream: Jaclyn turned on the bathtub faucet and the water started to flow.
flux (FLUKS) (noun)
1. Constant change and instability: Greg's political views are in a state of flux.
2. A state of uncertainty about what should be done, usually following some important event, preceding the establishment of a new direction of action: The flux following the death of the king caused much concern among the politicians.
2. A state of uncertainty about what should be done, usually following some important event, preceding the establishment of a new direction of action: The flux following the death of the king caused much concern among the politicians.
The frequent flux in the weather patterns often causes an ice floe to flow down the river towards the sea.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group F; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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“flow”
(Latin: flow, flowing; moving in a continuous and smooth way; wave, moving back and forth)
(Latin: flow, fluid, wave)
(Greek: to sail, to float; flow)
(Greek > Latin: flow, flowing)
(Latin > French: flow, wave, billow)
(Latin: flow, wave, to sway back and forth)
(reconstruction of blood vessels damaged by disease or injury usually performed by inflating a balloon inside the blood vessel lumen (tube) in order to reconstitute the flow of blood)
(reconstruction of blood vessels damaged by disease or injury usually performed by inflating a balloon inside the blood vessel lumen (tube) in order to reconstitute the flow of blood)
(reconstruction of blood vessels damaged by disease or injury usually performed by inflating a balloon inside the blood vessel lumen (tube) in order to reconstitute the flow of blood)
(reconstruction of blood vessels damaged by disease or injury usually performed by inflating a balloon inside the blood vessel lumen (tube) in order to reconstitute the flow of blood)
(reconstruction of blood vessels damaged by disease or injury usually performed by inflating a balloon inside the blood vessel lumen (tube) in order to reconstitute the flow of blood)
(reconstruction of blood vessels damaged by disease or injury usually performed by inflating a balloon inside the blood vessel lumen (tube) in order to reconstitute the flow of blood)
(reconstruction of blood vessels damaged by disease or injury usually performed by inflating a balloon inside the blood vessel lumen (tube) in order to reconstitute the flow of blood)
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Latin, fluere, to flow; gas)
(Latin: pertaining to summer; heat, fire; the ebb and flow of the sea, tide)
(Latin: flow out, to issue forth, to run)
(Greek: vein, blood vessel; from the verb, phlein, "to flow")
(Greek: a flow, wave; current of a stream, current; electrical current)
(Greek > Latin: a suffix; a bursting forth, excessive flow)
(Greek: a trickling; oozing; to drip, dripping; denoting a flow of some kind, or from some source)
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“flow”
axial-flow (adjective) (not comparable)
Referring to any liquid flowing parallel to an axis; axisymmetric flow: In turbomachinery the axial-flow turbine always moves parallel to the length of the rotating shaft,.
A common type of turbine with axial flow through the runner blades axially to the turbine shaft: An axial-flow turbine normally has 1-3 rotating stages and the flow of gas is essentially axial.
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axi-, axl- +
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turb-, turbin-, turbo-, turbu-
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electrolytic tank, electric tank, potential flow analyzer
1. A structure that serves as a model for an electron-tube system or an aerodynamic system, in which voltages are applied to test electron-tube design or to aid in computing ideal fluid flow.
2. A tank in which voltages are applied to an enlarged scale model of an electron-tube system or a reduced scale model of an aerodynamic system immersed in a poorly conducting liquid.
2. A tank in which voltages are applied to an enlarged scale model of an electron-tube system or a reduced scale model of an aerodynamic system immersed in a poorly conducting liquid.
The equipotential lines between electrodes are traced with measuring probes, as an aid to electron-tube design.
It is also used as an aid to electron-tube design or in computing ideal fluid flow.
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electro-, electr-, electri-
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electron flow
1. The movement of electrons through a metal or other conductive material from a negative to a positive point, or from a negative to a positive electrode through a liquid, a gas, or a vacuum.
2. A current produced by the motion of free electrons toward a positive terminal.
2. A current produced by the motion of free electrons toward a positive terminal.
The direction of electron flow is opposite to that of the current.
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electro-, electr-, electri-
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-tron, -tronic, -tronics +
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fluid-flow analogy
In transportation engineering, a conceptual model of traffic flow based on the behavior of fluids.
The intuitive power of this model is expressed in common terms; such as, "flow" and "bottleneck", but the "fluid-flow analogy" is also used to construct sophisticated models of traffic behavior.
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fluct-, flucti-, -flux, flu-, flum-, -fluent, -fluence
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influent flow
The flow of water into the ground from a body of surface water.
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fluct-, flucti-, -flux, flu-, flum-, -fluent, -fluence
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material flow account, material flow analysis
A component of a nation's economic accounts that represents inputs of materials, their accumulation, and their outflow to the natural environment and other economies.
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lyso-, lyo-, -lysin, -lys-, -lysis, -lytic, -lyt-, -lyz-
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materi-
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