Fluxion in a sentence as a noun

Ah, thank you for the clarification -- yes, Newton loved his fluxions, didn't he?

Newton understood calculus through the idea of fluxions.

It is often claimed that an insistence on teaching calculus with Newton's fluxions instead of Leibniz' infinitesmals held back research in England for a long time.

Bishop Berkeley's famous comment about "ghosts of departed quantities" was a criticism of fluxions, not infinitesmals.

Fluxion definitions

noun

a flow or discharge

See also: flux