Contiguous vs Confluent - What's the difference?
contiguous | confluent |
connected; touching; abutting
adjacent; neighbouring/neighboring
* 1730–1774 , , Introductory to Switzerland
* 1835 , William Scoresby, Memorials of the Sea (page 59)
connecting without a break
* 1886 , Frank Hamilton Cushing, A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth :
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 contiguous and confluent
is that contiguous is connected; touching; abutting while confluent is converging, merging into continuous shape (of two or more objects).contiguous
English
Adjective
(-)- Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
- He sees his little lot the lot of all;
- Sees no contiguous palace rear its head
- To shame the meanness of his humble shed;
- the usual quietness of the day, with us, was broken in upon by the shout of success from the pursuing boats, followed by vehement respondings from the contiguous ship.
- The forty-eight contiguous states.
- Supposing three such houses to be contiguous to a central one, each separated from the latter by a straight wall.
Derived terms
* contiguousnessSee also
* conterminousReferences
* *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.