fluxional

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English

Etymology

fluxion +‎ -al

Adjective

fluxional (comparative more fluxional, superlative most fluxional)

  1. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fluxion or fluxions; variable; inconstant.
    • (Can we date this quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      the merely human, the temporary and fluxional
  2. (chemistry, of a compound) That undergoes rapid intramolecular rearrangements, component atoms being interchanged among equivalent structures.