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confluent

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con⋅flu⋅ent

  [kon-floo-uhnt]
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–adjective
1. flowing or running together; blending into one: confluent rivers; confluent ideas.
2. Pathology.
a. running together: confluent efflorescences.
b. characterized by confluent efflorescences: confluent smallpox.
–noun
3. one of two or more confluent streams.
4. a tributary stream.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME (< MF) < L confluent- (s. of confluēns, prp. of confluere to flow together), equiv. to con- con- + flu- (s. of fluere to flow) + -ent- -ent; see fluent, fluid
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con·flu·ent   (kŏn'flōō-ənt)   
adj.  

  1. Flowing together; blended into one.

  2. Pathology Merging or running together so as to form a mass, as sores in a rash.

n.  

  1. One of two or more confluent streams.

  2. A tributary.


[Middle English, from Latin cōnfluēns, cōnfluent-, present participle of cōnfluere, to flow together : com-, com- + fluere, to flow; see bhleu- in Indo-European roots.]
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Main Entry: con·flu·ent
Pronunciation: 'kän-"flü-&nt, k&n-'
Function: adjective
1 : flowing or coming together;also : run together <confluent pustules>
2 : characterized by confluent lesions <confluent smallpox> —compare DISCRETE
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confluent con·flu·ent (kŏn'fl&oomacr;-ənt)
adj.

  1. Flowing together; blended into one.

  2. Merging or running together so as to form a mass, as sores in a rash.

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