Confluent

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1. Adjective

Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another.

2. Adjective

Blended into one; growing together, so as to obliterate all distinction.

3. Adjective

Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules.

4. Adjective

Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox.

5. Noun

A small steam which flows into a large one.

6. Noun

The place of meeting of steams, currents, etc.

7. Noun

a branch that flows into the main stream
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