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発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈkɑn.flu.ənt/

形容詞

confluent (comparative more confluent, superlative most confluent)

1. Converging, merging or flowing together into one.
   • 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:

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

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 19”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     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) Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
3. (biology) Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
4. (geometry, of a triangle) Exactly the same size as another triangle.
5. (mathematics) Given a binary operation ${\displaystyle \rightarrow _{\beta }}$ on a set A, and its reflexive, transitive closure ${\displaystyle \twoheadrightarrow _{\beta }}$ , then, for all a1, a2, and a3 in A, if a1 ${\displaystyle \rightarrow _{\beta }}$ a2 and a1 ${\displaystyle \rightarrow _{\beta }}$ a3, then there must exist an a4 in A such that a2 ${\displaystyle \twoheadrightarrow _{\beta }}$ a4 and a3 ${\displaystyle \twoheadrightarrow _{\beta }}$ a4.

派生語

名詞

confluent (plural confluents)

1. A stream uniting and flowing with another; a confluent stream.