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Definition of Fluxions
1. n. pl. See Fluxion, 6
Definition of Fluxions
1. Noun. (obsolete mathematics) differential calculus ¹
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Definition of Fluxions
1. fluxion [n] - See also: fluxion
Medical Definition of Fluxions
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fluxions
Literary usage of Fluxions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of George Berkeley ...: Including His Posthumous Works; with by George Berkeley (1901)
"Hence we may see that this last account of fluxions comes, in the upshot, to the
same thing with the first2. 42. But, notwithstanding what hath been said, ..."
2. The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne by George Berkeley, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (1898)
"of admitting or conceiving infinitesimals, and infinitesimals of infinitesimals,
&c., it is evident that this notion of fluxions would not consist with the ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Ever since that time the method of fluxions,9 as a distinct method, has become
almost obsolete ; and it is now strange to read Newton's own assertion in the ..."
4. A Course of Mathematics: In Three Volumes : Composed for the Use of the by Charles Hutton (1811)
"CHAPTER X. OF fluxions AND FLUENTS. ART. 1. In the 2d volume of this Course has
been given a compendious and easy treatise on fluxions and Fluents; ..."
5. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1921)
"Starting with the works of Newton that contain mention of fluxions, we are led,
through a chapter on printed books and articles on the subject which were ..."
6. Sir Isaac Newton's Two Treatises: Of the Quadrature of Curves, and Analysis by Isaac Newton, John Stewart (1745)
"And after the fame manner that zyy, x, v are the fluxions of it n ••• » the ...
laft the fluxions of the Quantities z, y, x, v : fo the Quantities z,y, ..."
7. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1811)
"The Principles of fluxions: designed for the Use of Students in the University.
By William Dealtry, MA Professor of Mathematics in the East-India College, ..."
8. Elementary Illustrations of the Differential and Integral Calculus by Augustus De Morgan (1899)
"THE METHOD OF fluxions. The foregoing process contains the method employed by
Newton, known by the name of the Method of fluxions. ..."
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