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Confluent

//ˈkɑn.flu.ənt// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Converging, merging or flowing together into one.

    "Yonder the river roll’d, whose bed, Their labyrinthine lingerings o’er, Received the confluent rills."

  2. 2
    Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
  3. 3
    Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
  4. 4
    Exactly the same size as another triangle.
  5. 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.
Adjective
  1. 1
    flowing together wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A stream uniting and flowing with another; a confluent stream.
  2. 2
    a branch that flows into the main stream wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin cōnfluēns, present participle of cōnfluō.

Etymology 2

From Latin cōnfluēns, present participle of cōnfluō.

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