a. [f. prec. + -AL.]
1. Math. Of the nature of or pertaining to a fluxion or the method of fluxions.
1748. Hartley, Observations on Man, I. iii. 357. The Justness of an arithmetical, algebraical, or fluxional Operation.
1823. Mitchell, Dict. Math. & Phys. Sc., Fluxional Analysis, is the analysis of fluxions and flowing quantities, distinguishable from the differential calculus both by its metaphysics and notation, but in all other respects the two methods are identical.
1828. Hutton, Course Math., II. 321. Multiply every term by the fluxional letter, and by such simple variable factor as the given fluxional expression may contain.
2. Pertaining to, resulting from, or subject to ‘fluxion’ or flowing.
1827. Coleridge, Rem. (1836), I. 215. How are we to explain the reaction of this fluxional body on the animal?
1842–3. Grove, Corr. Phys. Forces (1874), 134. The instability, or fluxional state, of all nature, when we have an opportunity of fairly investigating it at different and remote periods.
1862. F. Hall, Hindu Philos. Syst., 36, note. Other effects besides the fluxional creation of the world are referred to works.
