Affluent vs Confluent - What's the difference?
affluent | confluent |
(rft-sense) Somebody who is wealthy.
* 1994 , Philip D. Cooper, Health care marketing: a foundation for managed quality (page 183)
A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.
Abundant; copious; plenteous.
* H. Reed
(label) Abounding in goods or riches; materially wealthy.
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(label) Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
* Harvey
Converging, merging into continuous shape (of two or more objects).
* 1851 ,
(meteorology) (Of wind) which converges, especially when viewed on a weather chart
(biology) Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass
(geometry) (Of a triangle) which is exactly the same size as another triangle.
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As adjectives the difference between affluent and confluent
is that affluent is abundant; copious; plenteous while confluent is converging, merging into continuous shape (of two or more objects).As a noun affluent
is somebody who is wealthy.affluent
English
Noun
(en noun)- The affluents are most similar to the professional want-it-alls in their reasons for preferring specific hospitals and in their demographic characteristics.
Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- languageaffluent in expression
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Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* affluence * affluentlyReferences
confluent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A confluent smallpox 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.