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Adjective
/ˈkänˌflo͞oənt/,/kənˈflo͞oənt/,
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Flowing together or merging,
  1. Flowing together or merging
    • - warm confluent smells
  1. flowing together
  2. feeder: a branch that flows into the main stream
  3. A tributary or affluent is a stream or river which flows into a main stem (or parent) river. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea, ocean, or lake. ...
  4. (Confluency) In cell culture biology, confluency is commonly used as a measure of the number of the cells in a cell culture dish or a flask and refers to the coverage of the dish or the flask by the cells. ...
  5. (Of wind) which converges, especially when viewed on a weather chart; Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass; (Of a triangle) which is exactly the same size as another triangle
  6. (Confluency) The amount of surface area of the tissue culture plate that is covered with cells expressed as a percent (e.g. 100% means that the whole culture vessel surface is covered with cells).
  7. (Confluency) secessionist Southern states. "Great granpa Lester Poundstone fought in the Civil War for the Confluency."
  8. Running together, joined to form one structure, gradually fused.
  9. blending together, of an anther when the slits formed in dehiscence join in a single crescent-shaped opening [image] [image], of a leaf when the intramarginal vein blends into the edge of the leaf blade
  10. appearance when two structures merge without a seam.
  11. running into one another.
  12. eruptions merge together