confluent

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: con=flu=ent

CIDE DICTIONARY

confluent, a. [L. confluens, -entis, p. pr. of confluere, -fluxum; con- + fluere to flow. See Fluent.].

•  Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another; flowing together to form a single stream.  [1913 Webster]

  "These confluent steams make some great river's head."  [1913 Webster]
•  Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction.  [1913 Webster]
•  Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules.  Dunglison.  [1913 Webster]

confluent, n. 

•  A small steam which flows into a large one.  [1913 Webster]
•  The place of meeting of steams, currents, etc.  Holland.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

confluent, adj. & n.
--adj. flowing together, uniting.
--n. a stream joining another.

ROGET THESAURUS

confluent

Convergence

N convergence, confluence, concourse, conflux, congress, concurrence, concentration, convergency, appulse, meeting, corradiation, assemblage, resort, asymptote, converging, convergent, confluent, concurrent, centripetal, asymptotical, asymptotic, confluxible.