reflux

reflux englannista suomeksi

1. refluksi

2. pakovesi

0. Substantiivi

1. takaisinvirtaus

1. Verbi

reflux englanniksi

1. The backwards flow of any fluid.

2. (RQ:Defoe Robinson Crusoe) 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 (..)

3. A technique, using a condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period.

4. The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus.

5. To flow back or return.

''the refluxing tide''

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

7. ebb, tide

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9. vicissitude