Afflux

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  • noun. A flow to or toward an area, especially of blood or other fluid toward a body part.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of flowing to; a flow or flowing to; an accession: as, an afflux of blood to the head.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A flowing towards; that which flows to.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. an upward rush of fluid
  • noun. The rise in water level (above normal) on the upstream side of a bridge or obstruction caused when the effective flow area at the obstruction is less than the natural width of the stream immediately upstream of the obstruction.
    • Word Usage
    "There is a huge afflux of new information in human genetics and epigenetics."
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    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    access  accession  advance  advent  affluence  
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