English Dictionary

reflux

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɹiː.flʌks/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

The backwards flow of any fluid. / (chemistry) A technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period.

日本語の意味

（液体などの）逆流、すなわち流体が逆方向に流れる現象。 / 化学における還流法：還流コンデンサを用いて容器内の内容物を長時間にわたり沸騰させる技法。

The reflux in the drain caused sewage to back up into the basement.

排水管の逆流により汚水が地下室に流れ込んだ。

意味（1）

The backwards flow of any fluid.

[…] 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 […]

意味（2）

(chemistry) A technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period.

意味（3）

(pathology) The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus.

refluxes （ plural ）