/kon"flooh euhnt/ , adj.
1. flowing or running together; blending into one: confluent rivers; confluent ideas.
2. Pathol.
a. running together: confluent efflorescences.
b. characterized by confluent efflorescences: confluent smallpox.
n.
3. one of two or more confluent streams.
4. a tributary stream.
[ 1425-75; late ME ( confluent- (s. of confluens, prp. of confluere to flow together), equiv. to con- CON- + flu- (s. of fluere to flow) + -ent- -ENT; see FLUENT, FLUID ]