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Efflux   Listen
noun
Efflux  n.  
1.
The act or process of flowing out, or issuing forth; effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety. "It is then that the devout affections... are incessantly in efflux."
2.
That which flows out; emanation; effluence. "Prime cheerer, light!... Efflux divine."






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"Efflux" Quotes from Famous Books



... after they have turned again inward. The result will be that, with exactly the same sum of kinetic and potential energies of the same inclosed multitude of particles, the throng has been caused to be denser. Now Joule's and my own old experiments on the efflux of air prove that if the crowd be common air, or oxygen, or nitrogen, or carbonic acid, the temperature is a little higher in the denser than in the rarer condition when the energies are the same. By the hypothesis, equality of temperature ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 • Various

... that going to Court was like going to heaven; that to see princes and princesses was a kind of beatific vision; that the exquisite felicity enjoyed by royal persons was not confined to themselves, but was communicated by some mysterious efflux or reflection to all who were suffered to stand at their toilettes, or to bear their trains. He overruled all his daughter's objections, and himself escorted her to her prison. The door closed. The key was turned. She, looking back with tender regret on all that she had left, and forward with ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay



Words linked to "Efflux" :   flow, outflow, effluence



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