confluent
IPA: kɑnfɫˈuʌnt
noun
- A stream uniting and flowing with another; a confluent stream.
adjective
- (of two or more objects or shapes) Converging, merging or flowing together into one.
- (meteorology, of wind) Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
- (biology) Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
- (geometry, of a triangle) Exactly the same size as another triangle.
- (mathematics) 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.
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