fluent
nounEtymology From Latin fluens (“flowing”), present active participle of fluō (“to flow”).
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Mathematics, Sciences Obsolete A continuous variable, especially one with respect to time in Newton's Method of Fluxions.
fluent
adjUK /ˈfluːənt/ · US /ˈfluənt/
Etymology From Latin fluens (“flowing”), present active participle of fluō (“to flow”).
1
That flows; flowing, liquid.
- fluent handwriting
- For time is a fleeting thing, and which appeareth as in a shadow, with the matter ever gliding, alwaies fluent, without ever being stable or permanent[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
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Able to use a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently.
- She's fluent in French.
- The clerk had, I'm afraid, a shrew of a wife—shrill, vehement, and fluent.1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Being or relating to a fluent interface.
- The payment processor offers a fluent API.
- Antonyms
- laborious
- Derived terms
- disfluent, dysfluent, fluent interface, fluentness, hyperfluent, nonfluent, overfluent, socially fluent, subfluent, transfluent