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confluent | confluently |

As an adjective confluent

is converging, merging into continuous shape (of two or more objects).

As an adverb confluently is

in a confluent manner.

confluent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Converging, merging into continuous shape (of two or more objects).
  • * 1851 ,
  • 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.
  • (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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    confluently

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a confluent manner