Defn: Belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action; fluvial; as, fluviatile starta, plants. Lyell.
FLUVIOGRAPH
Flu"vi*o*graph, n. [L. fluvius river + -graph.]
Defn: An instrument for measuring and recording automatically the rise and fall of a river.
FLUVIO-MARINE
Flu`vi*o-ma*rine", a. Etym: [L. fluvius river + E. marine.] (Geol.)
Defn: Formed by the joint action of a river and the sea, as deposits at the mouths of rivers.
FLUVIOMETER
Flu`vi*om"e*ter, n. [L. fluvius river + -meter.]
Defn: An instrument for measuring the height of water in a river; a river gauge.
FLUX
Flux, n. Etym: [L. fluxus, fr. fluere, fluxum,to flow: cf.F. flux.
See Fluent, and cf. 1st & 2d Floss, Flush, n., 6.]
1. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change. By the perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part of them is thrown out of the body. Arbuthnot. Her image has escaped the flux of things, And that same infant beauty that she wore Is fixed upon her now forevermore. Trench. Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux. Felton.
2. The setting in of the tide toward the shore, — the (reflux.