confluent

Converging, merging or flowing together into one.

Adjective

  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...
    • 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”,...
  2. Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
  3. Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
  4. Exactly the same size as another triangle.
  5. 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.

Origin

From Latin cōnfluēns, present participle of cōnfluō.

Forms

more confluent most confluent

Derived

biconfluent confluently hyperconfluent nonconfluent overconfluent postconfluent preconfluent semiconfluent subconfluent superconfluent

Noun

  1. A stream uniting and flowing with another; a confluent stream.

Forms

confluents