confluent

From Middle French

confluent (comparative more confluent, superlative most confluent)

1. (Of two or more objects or shapes) converging or merging into a continuous shape.
   • 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.

confluent (plural confluents)

1. A stream uniting and flowing with another.

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confluent (feminine singular confluente, masculine plural confluents, feminine plural confluentes)

1. confluent

confluent m (plural confluents)

1. confluence (point where two rivers or streams meet)

confluent

1. third-person plural present indicative of confluer
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of confluer

• “confluent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

cōnfluent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of cōnfluō