confluent — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Converging, merging or flowing together into one.

   Examples

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

   More examples (1)

   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.

2. Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.

   Usage

   • of wind

3. Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.

4. Exactly the same size as another triangle.

   Usage

   • of a 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.

Adjective

1. flowing together

   Synonyms

   merging

Noun

1. a branch that flows into the main stream

   Synonyms

   feedertributaryaffluent

   Broader terms

   branch