confluent

Meanings

Plural: confluents

Noun

• a branch that flows into the main stream
• A stream uniting and flowing with another; a confluent stream.

Adjective Satellite

• flowing together

Adj

• Converging, merging or flowing together into one.
• Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
• Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
• Exactly the same size as another triangle.
• Given a binary operation →_β on a set A, and its reflexive, transitive closure ↠_β , then, for all a1, a2, and a3 in A, if a1 →_β a2 and a1 →_β a3, then there must exist an a4 in A such that a2 ↠_β a4 and a3 ↠_β a4.

Synonyms

affluent, feeder, merging, tributary

Antonyms

distributary

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