confluent
nounEtymology From Latin cōnfluēns, present participle of cōnfluō.
1
A stream uniting and flowing with another; a confluent stream.
confluent
adjUS /ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/
Etymology From Latin cōnfluēns, present participle of cōnfluō.
1
Converging, merging or flowing together into one.
- Yonder the river roll’d, whose bed, Their labyrinthine lingerings o’er, Received the confluent rills.1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:
- A confluent smallpox had in all directions flowed over his face, and left it like the complicated ribbed bed of a torrent, when the rushing waters have been dried up.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 19”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
2
Climatology, Meteorology, Natural sciences Of wind Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
3
Biology, Natural sciences Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
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Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences Of a triangle Exactly the same size as another triangle.
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Mathematics, Sciences Given a binary operation →_β on a set A, and its reflexive, transitive closure ↠_β , then, for all a1, a2, and a3 in A, if a1 →_β a2 and a1 →_β a3, then there must exist an a4 in A such that a2 ↠_β a4 and a3 ↠_β a4.
- Derived terms
- biconfluent, confluently, hyperconfluent, nonconfluent, overconfluent, postconfluent, preconfluent, semiconfluent, subconfluent, superconfluent