reflux
English
Pronunciation
Noun
reflux (countable and uncountable, plural refluxes)
- The backwards flow of any fluid.
- 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- […] 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 […]
- 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- (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.
Derived terms
Translations
backwards flow of any fluid
technique using a reflux condenser
Verb
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
French
Pronunciation
Noun
reflux m (uncountable)
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