confluent /ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/adjective 5noun 1forms 3 adjective5 •Converging, merging or flowing together into one.Yonder the river roll’d, whose bed, Their labyrinthine lingerings o’er, Received the confluent rills. — 1801 •Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart. •Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass. •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. •Exactly the same size as another triangle. noun1 •A stream uniting and flowing with another; a confluent stream. formsconfluents · more confluent · most confluent