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.

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Adjective

confluent m (feminine 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

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Latin

Verb

cōnfluent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of cōnfluō