confluent en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/ (General-American)
Etymology
From Latin cōnfluēns, present participle of cōnfluō.
Meanings
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Converging, merging or flowing together into one.
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, 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 Cottle, […], →OCLC:
- (of wind) Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
- Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
- (of a triangle) 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.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most confluent | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more confluent | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
confluently · preconfluent · postconfluent · overconfluent · nonconfluent · subconfluent · superconfluent · semiconfluent · hyperconfluent · biconfluent