Definition of "fluxion" in Englisch

noun

1. (obsolete, mathematics) The derivative of a function.

2. (rare or archaic) The action of flowing.

   • Perhaps he meant that towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

3. (rare or archaic) A difference or variation.

verb

1. (geology) To be distributed in a flowing pattern.