fluxuation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Misspelling of fluctuation.

Word forms

fluxuation

Etymology

* This misspelling comes from wrongly applying the change from -ct- to -x- in many English words of Latin origin to this word and the influence of the related word flux which did undergo that change. * Can be viewed as deriving from the similarly misspelled fluxuate + -ion.

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