Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of flowing away on all sides, as a fluid; fluidity: opposed to consistence. Also
diffluency . - noun In zoology, specifically, the peculiar mode of disintegration or dissolution of infusorians; the “molecular effusion” of Dujardin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A flowing off on all sides; fluidity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
flowing off on all sides;fluidity .
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Examples
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Meanwhile, the diffluence causes a spreading and flattening of the sarcode and swimming gives place to creeping, while the flagella violently lash.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various
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Though that's not a big deal for us in and of itself, there are problems here, because there's a ton of vorticity moving overhead, and how that vorticity interacts, combined with diffluence aloft and a mid-level speed max at 500 mb, as well as the approach of the trough axis at the jet stream level, creates a bulls-eye of upward vertical motion in all of the guidance products.
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Though that's not a big deal for us in and of itself, there are problems here, because there's a ton of vorticity moving overhead, and how that vorticity interacts, combined with diffluence aloft and a mid-level speed max at 500 mb, as well as the approach of the trough axis at the jet stream level, creates a bulls-eye of upward vertical motion in all of the guidance products.
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_d_ its west, or pole of diffluence and expansion — we have presented to us the universal quadruplicity, or four elemental forms of power; in the endless proportions and modifications of which, the innumerable offspring of all-bearing Nature consist.
Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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