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English[edit]
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Noun[edit]
reflux (countable and uncountable, plural refluxes)
- The backwards flow of any fluid.
- 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], published 1719, →OCLC:
- […] after a little way out to sea, there was a current and wind, always one way in the morning, the other in the afternoon. This I understood to be no more than the sets of the tide, as going out or coming in; but I afterwards understood it was occasioned by the great draft and reflux of the mighty river Orinoco […]
- (chemistry) A technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period.
- (pathology) The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus.
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Translations[edit]
backwards flow of any fluid
technique using a reflux condenser
Verb[edit]
reflux (third-person singular simple present refluxes, present participle refluxing, simple past and past participle refluxed)
- To flow back or return.
- the refluxing tide
- To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser
Catalan[edit]
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Noun[edit]
reflux m (plural refluxos)
- ebb, ebb tide
- Synonym: marea sortint
- reflux
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Further reading[edit]
- “reflux” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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reflux m (uncountable)
- ebb, ebb tide
- Antonym: flux
- vicissitude
- reflux
Further reading[edit]
- “reflux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
reflux n (plural refluxuri)
Declension[edit]
Declension of reflux
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) reflux | refluxul | (niște) refluxuri | refluxurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) reflux | refluxului | (unor) refluxuri | refluxurilor |
vocative | refluxule | refluxurilor |
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