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confluent

/ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/ US

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From Latin cōnfluēns, present participle of cōnfluō.

adjective more confluent · most confluent

Converging, merging or flowing together into one. Yonder the river roll’d, whose bed, Their labyrinthine lingerings o’er, Received the confluent rills.
of wind Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
of a triangle Exactly the same size as another triangle.
Given a binary operation →_β on a set A, and its reflexive, transitive closure ↠_β , then, for all a1, a2, and a3 in A, if a1 →_β a2 and a1 →_β a3, then there must exist an a4 in A such that a2 ↠_β a4 and a3 ↠_β a4.

noun confluents

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

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@misc{confluent_2026,
  title = {confluent},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/confluent},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}