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Webster 1913 Edition

Confluent

Con′flu-ent

,
Adj.
[L.
confluens
,
-entis
, p. pr. of
confluere
,
-fluxum
;
con-
+
fluere
to flow. See
Fluent
.]
1.
Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another; flowing together to form a single stream.

Syn. – merging(prenominal).
These
confluent
steams make some great river’s head.
Blackmore.
2.
(Bot.)
Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction.
3.
(Med.)
(a)
Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules.
(b)
Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface;
as,
confluent
smallpox
.
Dunglison.

Con′flu-ent

,
Noun.
1.
A small steam which flows into a large one.
2.
The place of meeting of steams, currents, etc.
[Obs.]
Holland.

Webster 1828 Edition

Confluent

CONFLUENT

,
Adj.
[L.]
1.
Flowing together; meeting in their course, as two streams; as confluent streams.
2.
In medical science, running together, and spreading over a large surface of the body; as the confluent small-pox.
3.
In botany, united at the base; growing in tufts, as confluent leaves; running into each other, as confluent lobes.

Definition 2024

confluent

confluent

English

Adjective

confluent ‎(comparative more confluent, superlative most confluent)

  1. Converging, merging into continuous shape (of two or more objects).
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 19
      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. (meteorology) (Of wind) which converges, especially when viewed on a weather chart
  3. (biology) Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass
  4. (geometry) (Of a triangle) which is exactly the same size as another triangle.

French

Adjective

confluent m ‎(feminine singular confluente, masculine plural confluents, feminine plural confluentes)

  1. confluent

Noun

confluent m ‎(plural confluents)

  1. confluence (point where two rivers or streams meet)

Verb

confluent

  1. third-person plural present indicative of confluer
  2. third-person plural present subjunctive of confluer

Latin

Verb

cōnfluent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of cōnfluō

Etymology

From Middle French

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