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confluent

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con·flu·ent  (knfl-nt)
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 cnfluns, cnfluent-, present participle of cnfluere, to flow together : com-, com- + fluere, to flow; see bhleu- in Indo-European roots.]
confluent [ˈkɒnflʊənt]
adj
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) flowing together or merging
n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a stream that flows into another, usually of approximately equal size
[from Latin confluēns, from confluere to flow together, from fluere to flow]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.confluent - a branch that flows into the main stream
tributary, affluent, feeder
branch - a stream or river connected to a larger one
Adj.1.confluent - flowing together
merging
convergent - tending to come together from different directions


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A confluent small-pox 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.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
But as if this vast local power in the tendinous tail were not enough, the whole bulk of the leviathan is knit over with a warp and woof of muscular fibres and filaments, which passing on either side the loins and running down into the flukes, insensibly blend with them, and largely contribute to their might; so that in the tail the confluent measureless force of the whole whale seems concentrated to a point.
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The chin is a still larger drop, the confluent dripping of the face.
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