reflux - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiː.flʌks/

reflux (countable and uncountable, plural refluxes)

1. The backwards flow of any fluid.

   Synonyms: backflow, backflux

   Hypernyms: flow, flux

   • 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:

     […] 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 […]

2. (chemistry) A technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period.
3. (pathology) The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus.

reflux (third-person singular simple present refluxes, present participle refluxing, simple past and past participle refluxed)

1. To flow back or return.

   Synonyms: backflow, backflux

   Hypernyms: flow, flux

   the refluxing tide

2. To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser.

Borrowed from Latin reflūxus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rəˈfluks]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [reˈfluks]

reflux m (plural refluxos)

1. ebb, ebb tide

   Synonym: marea sortint

2. reflux

• refluir

• “reflux” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From re- +‎ flux.

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.fly/

reflux m (uncountable)

1. ebb, ebb tide

   Antonym: flux

2. vicissitude
3. reflux

• “reflux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French reflux.

reflux n (plural refluxuri)

1. reflux