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Definition of Fluence
1. n. Fluency.
Definition of Fluence
1. Noun. (obsolete) Fluency. ¹
2. Noun. (physics) A measure of particle flux (or that of a pulse of electromagnetic radiation). ¹
3. Noun. A magical or mysterious force; hypnotic power; energy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fluence
1. fluency [n -S] - See also: fluency
Medical Definition of Fluence
1. A measure of the quantity of x-radiation in a beam in diagnostic radiology, either particle fluence, the number of photons entering a sphere of unit cross-sectional area, or energy fluence, the sum of the energies of the photons passing through a unit area. Compare: flux. Origin: L. Fluentia, a flowing, fr. Fluo, to flow (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fluence
Literary usage of Fluence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Basic Studies in the Field of High-Temperature Engineering: Third by Nuclear Energy Agency, Nihon Genshiryoku Kenkyūjo (2004)
"It is the final term, - AE'AJ , that results in the divergence at large fluence
for H+ irradiation on W in Figure 3. The sign of the term depends on the two ..."
2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1839)
"I readily discovered the prodigious in. fluence which this primary fact exercises
on the-whole course of ..."
3. Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the Task Force on Shielding Aspects of by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2004)
"From the weighted organ doses the fluence-to-effective dose conversion coefficients
were ... The effect of the different fluence-to-dose conversion ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Its Dom- fluence of the monasteries, which thus manee, became allied with the
imperial family. Japanese Buddhism is divided into many sects. ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1837)
"... like Rudolph under the in- they did not think it a bit strange that pressed
murmurs of indignation are " We heard," adds Rabelais, " that fluence of ..."
6. 3-D Deterministic Radiation Transport Computer Programs: Features by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (1997)
"With the Sn code TORT the neutron fluence in the pressure vessel had been predicted
for the oldest power reactor in Germany at Obrigheim. ..."
7. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"... to in« fluence the aggregate price, by operations carried on in those smaller
districts, would still exist. To obviate the occurrence of so great an ..."
8. Through the Dark Continent: Or, The Sources of the Nile, Around the Great by Henry Morton Stanley (1879)
"... mr. and the left, Rinda; that the district between the con- ^J^v fluence of the
... fluence ..."
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