Less to be counted than the fluxions of sun dials.
De Quincey.
6. (Math.) (a) The infinitely small increase or decrease of a variable
or flowing quantity in a certain infinitely small and constant period
of time; the rate of variation of a fluent; an incerement; a
differential. (b) pl. A method of analysis developed by Newton, and
based on the conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and
involving in their changes the notion of velocity or rate of change.
Its results are the same as those of the differential and integral
calculus, from which it differs little except in notation and logical
method.
Flux"ion*al (?), a. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or
fluxions; variable; inconstant.
The merely human,the temporary and fluxional.
Coleridge.
Fluxional structure (Geol.), fluidal structure.
Flux"ion*a*ry (?), a. 1. Fluxional. Berkeley.
2. (Med.) Pertaining to, or caused by, an increased flow of blood to a
part; congestive; as, a fluxionary hemorrhage.
Flux"ion*ist, n. One skilled in fluxions. Berkeley.
Flux"ions (?), n. pl. (Math.) See Fluxion, 6(b).
Flux"ive (?), a. Flowing; also, wanting solidity. B. Jonson.
Flux"ure (?; 138), n. [L. fluxura a flowing.] 1. The quality of being
fluid. [Obs.] Fielding.