fluxions in English
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a function corresponding to the rate of change of a variable quantity; a derivative.
He integrated Leibniz's differential calculus and Newton's method of fluxions into mathematical analysis.
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1. The Antecedental Calculus, or a Geometrical Method of Reasoning, without any consideration of motion or velocity applicable to every purpose to which fluxions have been or can be applied, with the geometrical principles of increments, &c., 1793.