CONFLUENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does confluent mean? 

• CONFLUENT (noun)
  The noun CONFLUENT has 1 sense:

1. a branch that flows into the main stream

  Familiarity information: CONFLUENT used as a noun is very rare.

• CONFLUENT (adjective)
  The adjective CONFLUENT has 1 sense:

1. flowing together

  Familiarity information: CONFLUENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONFLUENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A branch that flows into the main stream

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

affluent; confluent; feeder; tributary

Hypernyms ("confluent" is a kind of...):

branch (a stream or river connected to a larger one)

• CONFLUENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flowing together

Synonyms:

confluent; merging

Similar:

convergent (tending to come together from different directions)

Derivation:

confluence (a flowing together)

confluence (a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers))

 Context examples 

A rare cutaneous disorder of unknown etiology characterized by the presence of reddish-orange scaly plaques, palmoplantar keratoderma, keratotic follicular papules, and confluent erythematous areas with areas of normal skin between the lesions.

(Pityriasis Rubra Pilaris, NCI Thesaurus)

There is an associated proliferation of epithelioid histiocytes forming confluent clusters.

(Lymphoepithelioid Variant Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)