confluent

Meaning

Adj

1. Converging, merging or flowing together into one.
2. Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
3. Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
4. Exactly the same size as another triangle.
5. 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

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

Synonyms

tributary

affluent

feeder

merging

combinatory

concurrent

connate

contributory

distributary

flowing

flowing together

inflow

interfluent

tributary stream

unifying

adnate

fusional

onflow

side stream

tributary waterway

tributary flow

tributary drain

tributary course

afflux

branch

bypass

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/

Etymology

From Middle French [Term?].