Meaning & use
Confluent
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Flowing or coming together into one; merging, especially of streams, ideas, or, in medicine, of skin lesions that have spread together into a continuous area.
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The two rivers become confluent just south of the old mill town.
The rash had become confluent, covering most of the child's back in a single red patch.
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From Latin 'confluere' (to flow together); the same root gives us 'confluence,' the meeting point of two rivers.
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mergingconvergingjoining
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