Definition of "fluxional" []

• That undergoes rapid intramolecular rearrangements, component atoms being interchanged among equivalent structures. (adjective)

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• "Berkeley's arguments are directed chiefly against the Newtonian fluxional calculus."
• "For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead."
• "Those evils of Athens then, which were found in very deed somewhat later to be the infirmity of Greece as a whole, when, though its versatile gifts of intellect might constitute it the teacher of its eventual masters, it was found too incoherent politically to hold its own against Rome: -- those evils of Athens, of Greece, came from an exaggerated assertion of the fluxional, flamboyant, centrifugal Ionian element in the Hellenic character."