confluent

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Adjective

confluent

1. (of two or more objects or shapes) converging or merging into a continuous shape.
   • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

     Yonder the river roll’d, whose bed,
     Their labyrinthine lingerings o’er,
     Received the confluent rills.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 19

     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.

2. (meteorology, of wind) which converges, especially when viewed on a weather chart
3. (biology) Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass
4. (geometry, of a triangle) which is exactly the same size as another triangle.

Noun

confluent (plural confluents)

1. A stream uniting and flowing with another.

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