confluent
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French [Term?].
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]confluent (comparative more confluent, superlative most confluent)
- (of two or more objects or shapes) Converging, merging or flowing together into one.
- 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:
- Yonder the river roll’d, whose bed,
Their labyrinthine lingerings o’er,
Received the confluent rills.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 19”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- 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.
- (meteorology, of wind) Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
- (biology) Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
- (geometry, of a triangle) Exactly the same size as another triangle.
- (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
[edit]Noun
[edit]confluent (plural confluents)
- A stream uniting and flowing with another; a confluent stream.
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Adjective
[edit]confluent (feminine confluente, masculine plural confluents, feminine plural confluentes)
Noun
[edit]confluent m (plural confluents)
- confluence (point where two rivers or streams meet)
Verb
[edit]confluent
Further reading
[edit]- “confluent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]cōnfluent
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French confluent, from Latin confluens.
Adjective
[edit]confluent m or n (feminine singular confluentă, masculine plural confluenți, feminine and neuter plural confluente)
Declension
[edit]Declension of confluent
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | confluent | confluentă | confluenți | confluente | ||
definite | confluentul | confluenta | confluenții | confluentele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | confluent | confluente | confluenți | confluente | ||
definite | confluentului | confluentei | confluenților | confluentelor |
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