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)

Geography

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

Approach

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

Crosswords: AFFLUX

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

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)

Derivations

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

Misspellings

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: luffa.

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

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

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

+2 letters: affluxes, suffixal.

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