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confluent

[kon-floo-uhnt]

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adjective

flowing or running together; blending into one: confluent rivers; confluent ideas.

Pathology.

running together: confluent efflorescences.

characterized by confluent efflorescences: confluent smallpox.

noun

one of two or more confluent streams.

a tributary stream.

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Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Latin confluent- (stem of confluēns, present participle of confluere to flow together), equivalent to con- con- + flu- (stem of fluere to flow) + -ent- -ent; see fluent, fluid

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confluent (ˈkɒnflʊənt)

—*adj*
1.	flowing together or merging

—n
2.	a stream that flows into another, usually of approximately equal size

[C17: from Latin confluēns, from confluere to flow together, from fluere to flow]

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confluent

1610s, from L. confluentem, prp. of confluere (see confluence). The noun meaning "a stream which flows into another" is from 1850.

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confluent con·flu·ent (kŏn'fl&oomacr;-ənt)
adj.

Flowing together; blended into one.
Merging or running together so as to form a mass, as sores in a rash.

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"English talk is often very short, very much shorter than ours. This is because they all understand each other, are much closer knit than we are. Behind them are generations of "doing it" in the same established way, a way that their long experience of life has hammered out for their own convenience, and which they like. We're not nearly so closely knit together here, save in certain spots, especially the old spots. In Boston they understand each other with very few words said. So they do in Charleston. But these spots of condensed and hoarded understanding lie far apart, are never confluent, and also differ in their details; while the whole of England is confluent, and details have been slowly worked out through centuries of getting on together, and are accepted and observed exactly like the rules of the game."

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