Usually means: Merging or flowing together smoothly.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word confluent:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. confluent: Merriam-Webster
  2. confluent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confluent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confluent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. confluent: Vocabulary.com
  6. confluent: Wordnik
  7. confluent: Wiktionary
  8. confluent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. confluent: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. confluent: Dictionary.com
  11. Confluent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Confluent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. confluent: Rhymezone
  14. Confluent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. confluent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. confluent: FreeDictionary.org
  17. confluent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. confluent: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confluent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confluent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. confluent: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. confluent: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Confluent: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. Confluent: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  5. confluent: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (confluent)

adjective:  (of two or more objects or shapes) Converging, merging or flowing together into one.
adjective:  (meteorology, of wind) Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
adjective:  (biology) Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
adjective:  (geometry, of a triangle) Exactly the same size as another triangle.
adjective:  (mathematics) 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.

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