fluence
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
fluence (countable and uncountable, plural fluences)
- (obsolete) Fluency
- 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 139:
- a voluble and ſmart fluence of Tongue,
- (physics) A measure of particle flux (or that of a pulse of electromagnetic radiation)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
A measure of particle flux
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Etymology 2[edit]
Shortened form of influence.
Noun[edit]
fluence (plural fluences)
- A magical or mysterious force; hypnotic power; energy.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 191:
- I don't say she would have done anything, if it had come to the point; but the fluence was on, and she got me hot.