confluent

UK /ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/ US /ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/
adj 5noun 1

Definitions

adj

1

Converging, merging or flowing together into one.

Yonder the river roll’d, whose bed, Their labyrinthine lingerings o’er, Received the confluent rills.

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

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

1

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

Your note

not saved
0 chars