The difference between Flux and Stasis
When used as nouns, flux means the act of flowing, whereas stasis means a slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.
Flux is also verb with the meaning: to use flux on.
Flux is also adjective with the meaning: flowing.
check bellow for the other definitions of Flux and Stasis
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Flux as a noun:
The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
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Flux as a noun:
A state of ongoing change.
Examples:
"The schedule is in flux at the moment."
"Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux''."
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Flux as a noun:
A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding.
Examples:
"It is important to use flux when soldering or oxides on the metal will prevent a good bond."
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Flux as a noun (physics):
The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity) through a given surface, specifically electric flux, magnetic flux.
Examples:
"That high a neutron flux would be lethal in seconds."
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Flux as a noun (archaic):
A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
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Flux as a noun (archaic):
Diarrhea or other fluid discharge from the body.
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Flux as a noun:
The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
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Flux as a verb (transitive):
To use flux on.
Examples:
"You have to flux the joint before soldering."
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Flux as a verb (transitive):
To melt.
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Flux as a verb (intransitive):
To flow as a liquid.
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Flux as an adjective (uncommon):
Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable.
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Stasis as a noun (pathology):
A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.
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Stasis as a noun:
Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
Examples:
"His company was sized for growth, not stasis."
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Stasis as a noun (scifi):
A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
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Stasis as a noun:
One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.