confluent
US/ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/
confluent adjective: converging, merging or flowing together into one.
Adjective
confluent (comparative more confluent, superlative most confluent)
- 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... - 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
- Yonder the river roll’d, whose bed,
- Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
- Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
- Exactly the same size as another triangle.
- 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.
Noun
confluent (plural confluents)
- A stream uniting and flowing with another; a confluent stream.
confluent meaning in Tamil
confluent in Tamil
- இணைசேர், இணைந்த சேர்ந்து திரண்டு, ஒன்றுப்பட்ட, கலந்தோடும், சங்கம்மாகும், ஆற்றுச்சந்தி
Forms of confluent
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more confluent |
| superlative | most confluent |
| Noun | |
| plural | confluents |
Origin of confluent
From Latin cōnfluēns, present participle of cōnfluō.
Words formed from confluent
Questions about confluent
- What does confluent mean?
- Confluent means converging, merging or flowing together into one.
- What is confluent in Tamil?
- Confluent in Tamil is இணைசேர், இணைந்த சேர்ந்து திரண்டு, ஒன்றுப்பட்ட. See Confluent meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is confluent?
- Confluent can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce confluent?
- Confluent is pronounced /ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/ (US).
Words near confluent in the dictionary
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