confluent. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

confluent

SYLLABICATION:	con·flu·ent
PRONUNCIATION:	knfl-nt
ADJECTIVE:	1. Flowing together; blended into one. 2. Pathology Merging or running together so as to form a mass, as sores in a rash.
NOUN:	1. One of two or more confluent streams. 2. A tributary.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English, from Latin cnfluns, cnfluent-, present participle of cnfluere, to flow together : com-, com- + fluere, to flow; see bhleu- in Appendix I.


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