interfluent

English

Etymology

From Latin interfluens, present participle, and interfluus. See inter-, and fluent.

Adjective

interfluent (comparative more interfluent, superlative most interfluent)

1. (rare or dated, of multiple wavelike objects or figuratively) flowing into one another.
   • 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:

     Air may consist of any terrene or aqueous corpuscles, kept swimming in the interfluent celestial matter.

Related terms

• interfluence

Latin

Verb

interfluent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of interfluō