diffluence
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The characteristics of the soils, vegetation, desert varnish, slope of the stream channel, and drainage texture are used to confirm the location of the primary diffluence."
- "Some of the sediment transported during runoff is deposited locally, and a lobe of deposited sediment is formed downstream from the diffluence."
- "Usually, however, confluence is associated with an increase in air velocity and diffluence with a decrease. In the intermediate case, confluence is balanced by an increase in wind velocity and diffluence by a decrease in velocity."
- "This flow exhibits diffluence and stretching and hence divergence, but no curvature or shear and hence no vorticity."