confluent

IPA: kɑnfɫˈuʌnt

(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.

Examples of "confluent" in Sentences

These rules cause the calculus to be confluent.
Orthogonal term rewriting systems are confluent.
The adipose fin is confluent with the caudal fin.
A confluent rewriting system allows one to do precisely this.
One is known as the confluent hypergeometric function of Kummer.
Confluent and reticulated papillomatosis of Gougerot and Carteaud.
The ACES Teaching Approach is based on the confluent theory of education.
But the timing with the College and the debate history seem more confluent.
A rewriting system may be locally confluent without being globally confluent.
In sum, the History of Jews in Poland is confluent with the history of the town.