How do you pronounce confluent?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/.

confluent

/ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.17 in modern English

Syllables: con-flu-ent
IPA: /ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/

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Meaning

adj

Converging, merging or flowing together into one.

adj

Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.

adj

Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.

adj

Exactly the same size as another triangle.

adj

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.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From Latin cōnfluēns, present participle of cōnfluō.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: *bʰlewH-, cōnfluēns

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/

Inflected Forms

more confluent (comparative) most confluent (superlative) confluents (plural)

Derived Forms

biconfluent confluently hyperconfluent nonconfluent overconfluent postconfluent preconfluent semiconfluent subconfluent superconfluent

Synonyms

merging feeder tributary affluent

Rhymes With

pursuant fluent truant