Meaning

Converging, merging or flowing together into one..

Definitions by Sense

1. Converging, merging or flowing together into one.
2. (meteorology, of wind) Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
3. (biology) Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
4. (geometry, of a triangle) Exactly the same size as another triangle.
5. (mathematics) 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.
6. A stream uniting and flowing with another; a confluent stream.

Example Sentences

Yonder the river roll’d, whose bed, Their labyrinthine lingerings o’er, Received the confluent rills.

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.

Word Forms

• more confluent
• most confluent
• confluents

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Use confluent when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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