fluence

English

Etymology 1

From French fluence.

Noun

fluence (countable and uncountable, plural fluences)

1. (obsolete) Fluency
   • 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 139:

     a voluble and ſmart fluence of Tongue,

2. (physics) A measure of particle flux (or that of a pulse of electromagnetic radiation)

Derived terms

• fluence rate

Translations

A measure of particle flux

• Bulgarian: дебит (bg) m (debit), поток (bg) m (potok)
• Russian: интегральная плотность потока f (integralʹnaja plotnostʹ potoka), интегральный поток m (integralʹnyj potok), флюенс (ru) m (fljujens)
• Spanish: fluencia f

Etymology 2

Shortened form of influence.

Noun

fluence (plural fluences)

1. A magical or mysterious force; hypnotic power; energy.
   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 191:

     I don't say she would have done anything, if it had come to the point; but the fluence was on, and she got me hot.