Definition of "fluxes" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flux. (verb)

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• "So all the fluxes are a combination of one or two element atoms and one oxygen atom."
• "_ -- For the performance of the above operations we require the two gases, oxygen and acetylene, to produce the flames; rods of metal which may be added to the joints while molten in order to give the weld sufficient strength and proper form, and various chemical powders, called fluxes, which assist in the flow of metal and in doing away with many of the impurities and other objectionable features."
• "If we could look at the universe through a super-powerful microscope, we would see that it is composed of "Tinkertoy" elements called fluxes, branes, moduli, orientifolds (and more) all arranged on a tiny knot of higher-dimensional space called a Calabi-Yau manifold."