CONFLUENT


Meaning of CONFLUENT in English

/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 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .