Confluent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Flowing together; blended into one.
  • adj. Pathology Merging or running together so as to form a mass, as sores in a rash.
  • n. One of two or more confluent streams.
  • n. A tributary.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Converging, merging into continuous shape (of two or more objects).
  • adj. (Of wind) which converges, especially when viewed on a weather chart
  • adj. Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass
  • adj. (Of a triangle) which is exactly the same size as another triangle.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another; flowing together to form a single stream.
  • adj. Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction.
  • adj.
  • adj. Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules.
  • adj. Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface.
  • n. A small steam which flows into a large one.
  • n. The place of meeting of steams, currents, etc.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Flowing together; meeting in their course, as two streams.
  • In anatomy, having grown or become blended together, as two bones which were originally separate.
  • In botany and zoology, blended into one: us, confluent leaves.
  • In pathol: Running together: as, confluent pustules.
  • Characterized by confluent pustules: as, confluent smallpox.
  • Rich; affluent.
  • n. A tributary stream: as, the Mohawk is a confluent of the Hudson.
  • n. A joining or confluence, as of two streams.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a branch that flows into the main stream
  • adj. flowing together
    • Equivalent
    convergent   
    Antonym
    divergent   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    branch   
    Cross Reference
    confluent colors    confluent veins    confluent impressions   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    merging    joining    meeting    commingling    concurrent   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    fluent    pursuant    truant   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    coonskin    ill-defined    eruptive    roundish    self-assembled   
     
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