confluent
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3ADJ.
received
CONFLUENT + NOUN
rills, smallpox
PREP.
in
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adj
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.
Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
Exactly the same size as another triangle.
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.
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2Yonder the river roll’d, whose bed, Their labyrinthine lingerings o’er, Received the confluent rills.
WiktionaryA 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.
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