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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A stream uniting and flowing with another; a confluent stream.
2. 2
   a branch that flows into the main stream wordnet

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

Synonyms

All synonyms

affluentapproachingbayoubranchcentripetalconcurrent

Example

More examples

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

Etymology

From Latin cōnfluēns, present participle of cōnfluō.

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