English Explanatory Dictionary

confluent

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Converging, merging or flowing together into one.
  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.
noun
  1. A stream uniting and flowing with another; a confluent stream.

Pronunciation

/ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-confluent.wav

Word forms

confluent more confluent most confluent confluents

Etymology

From Latin cōnfluēns, present participle of cōnfluō.

Derived words

biconfluent confluently hyperconfluent nonconfluent overconfluent postconfluent preconfluent semiconfluent subconfluent superconfluent
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