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diffluence

diffluence noun: a flowing off on all sides; fluidity.

Noun

diffluence (countable and uncountable, plural diffluences)

  1. A flowing off on all sides; fluidity.
    • The characteristics of the soils, vegetation, desert varnish, slope of the stream channel, and drainage texture are used to confirm the location of the primary diffluence.1992, H. W. Hjalmarson, S. P. Kemna, Flood Hazards of Distributary-flow Areas in Southwestern Arizona
    • Some of the sediment transported during runoff is deposited locally, and a lobe of deposited sediment is formed downstream from the diffluence.1994, H. W. Hjalmarson, Potential Flood Hazards and Hydraulic Characteristics of Distributary-Flow Areas in Maricopa County, Arizona, page 2

diffluence meaning in Tamil

diffluence in Tamil

நிரம்பி வழிதல்

Examples of diffluence in a sentence

  • Usually, however, confluence is associated with an increase in air velocity and diffluence with a decrease.2004, Roger Barry, Richard Chorley, Roger G. Barry, Atmosphere, Weather and Climate, page 118:
  • This flow exhibits diffluence and stretching and hence divergence, but no curvature or shear and hence no vorticity.2006, John M. Wallace, Peter V. Hobbs, Atmospheric Science: An Introductory Survey, page 273:

Forms of diffluence

pluraldiffluences
alternative formdiffluency

Questions about diffluence

What does diffluence mean?
Diffluence means a flowing off on all sides; fluidity.
What is diffluence in Tamil?
Diffluence in Tamil is நிரம்பி வழிதல். See Diffluence meaning in Tamil.
How do you use diffluence in a sentence?
Usually, however, confluence is associated with an increase in air velocity and diffluence with a decrease.
What part of speech is diffluence?
Diffluence is a noun.
What is the plural of diffluence?
The plural of diffluence is diffluences.

Words near diffluence in the dictionary

  1. diffixes
  2. difflation
  3. difflations
  4. Diffley
  5. Diffleys
  6. diffluence
  7. diffluences
  8. diffluent
  9. difflugid
  10. difflugids
  11. diffogram

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Adapted from Wiktionary: diffluence (page history and authors); diffluence (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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