Confluent

Quick meaning: Confluent is an adjective meaning Converging, merging or flowing together into one.

Meaning

Converging, merging or flowing together into one.

More Meanings

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

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

• confluents

Synonyms for confluent

Depending on context, synonyms include convergent, merging.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include merging, convergent, variola, interfluent, hyperconfluent, circumfluent.

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