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[ US /kɑnˈfɫuənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. flowing together
NOUN
  1. a branch that flows into the main stream

How To Use confluent In A Sentence

  • Multiple diffuse, single, and confluent nodules were present in all lung fields and liver lobes.
  • It is a linear epistemology; and those with the most faith in kinetic force tend to be those who overlook complexity and confluential processes, preferring to eliminate complexity by obliterating whatever does not hold to their line of sight. My short plan for the War in Afghanistan: « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy
  • _Confluentes_), reminds us that the word was so used.] {125} A passage from Hacket’s _Life of Archbishop Williams_, part 2, p. 144, marks the first rise of this word, and the quarter from whence it arose: “When they [the Presbyterians] saw that he was not _selfish_ (it is a word of their own new mint), etc”. English Past and Present
  • The Toleure, a tributary of the Aubonne, frequently large enough to be called a confluent, flows out from the foot of a wall of rock composed of regular parallelopipeds, and in the spring, when the snows are melting freely, its sources burst out at various levels of the rock. Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
  • Of all salmonids, namely the salmon and trout, S. confluentus is more inclined to feed on fish.
  • Cells were confluent within one day and were grown for a total of 5-6 days to allow the brush-border to develop.
  • Chick embryonic cells in the interior of confluent monolayers are able to ruffle and translocate relative to one another.
  • The nodes were tan-pink and had confluent areas of hemorrhage and necrosis.
  • These spots later became confluent, with some central clearing and a purple hue.
  • June was composed of grasses neatly interwoven in the shape of an ovate ball, the smaller end uppermost and forming the mouth or entrance; it was lined first with cottony seed-down, and then with fine grass-stalks; it was suspended among high grass, and contained five beautiful little eggs of a carneous white colour, thicky freckled with deep rufous, and with a darkish confluent ring of the same at the larger end. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
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