confluent

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle French [Term?].

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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confluent (comparative more confluent, superlative most confluent)

  1. (of two or more objects or shapes) Converging, merging or flowing together into one.
  2. (meteorology, of wind) Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
  3. (biology) Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
  4. (geometry, of a triangle) Exactly the same size as another triangle.
  5. (mathematics) Given a binary operation on a set A, and its reflexive, transitive closure , then, for all a1, a2, and a3 in A, if a1 a2 and a1 a3, then there must exist an a4 in A such that a2 a4 and a3 a4.

Derived terms

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Noun

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confluent (plural confluents)

  1. A stream uniting and flowing with another; a confluent stream.

French

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French Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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

  1. confluent

Noun

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confluent m (plural confluents)

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

Verb

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confluent

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

Further reading

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Latin

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Verb

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cōnfluent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of cōnfluō

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French confluent, from Latin confluens.

Adjective

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confluent m or n (feminine singular confluentă, masculine plural confluenți, feminine and neuter plural confluente)

  1. confluent

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