reflux

See also: Reflux

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiː.flʌks/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• acid reflux
• gastric reflux
• gastroesophageal reflux
• hepatojugular reflux
• nonreflux
• refluxate
• reflux condenser
• yo-yo reflux

 

Translations

backwards flow of any fluid

• Bulgarian: отлив (bg) m (otliv), оттегляне (bg) n (ottegljane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 回流 (huíliú)

• Finnish: takaisinvirtaus (fi)
• French: reflux (fr) m
• German: Rückfluss m, Reflux (de) m
• Icelandic: bakflæði n
• Indonesian: refluks
• Spanish: reflujo (es) m

technique using a reflux condenser

• French: reflux (fr) m
• German: Rückfluss m
• Irish: aife f
• Korean: 환류 (hwallyu)

See also

• retrograde

 

Verb

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.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reflūxus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

reflux m (plural refluxos)

1. ebb, ebb tide

   Synonym: marea sortint

2. reflux

Related terms

• refluir

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ flux.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.fly/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

Noun

reflux m (uncountable)

1. ebb, ebb tide

   Antonym: flux

2. vicissitude
3. reflux

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French reflux.

Noun

reflux n (plural refluxuri)

1. reflux

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	reflux	refluxul		refluxuri	refluxurile
genitive-dative	reflux	refluxului		refluxuri	refluxurilor
vocative	refluxule			refluxurilor